Work is good for your health?

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Work is good for your health?
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Mon, 05-15-2006 - 5:25am

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=43421
Working Mothers Healthier Than Full-time Housewives

Main Category: Women's Health / OBGYN News
Article Date: 15 May 2006 - 1:00am (PDT)

According to new research carried out in Britain, working mothers enjoy better health than full-time housewives. Despite the stress working mothers face by holding down a job, dealing with childcare, housework and striving to keep the family happy.

It appears that working mothers, when compared to full-time housewives, are less likely to become overweight, have a better level of health and a healthier relationship. The study also found that single mothers experience worse health than working mothers who have a partner and children.

You can read about this study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Team leader, Dr. Anne McMunn, University College London, said that women who combine work with children and marriage do seem to have better health than full-time housewives. Even though they may experience high levels of stress sometimes.

It is not a question of chicken-and-egg either. Dr. McMunn said it is the experience of work plus having a family that brings on the better health, not the fact that only healthier mothers decide to carry on working.

The researchers examined data on women born in 1946 from the Medical Research Council's National Study of Health and Development. The data registers their health from 1946 until they are 54. Women's health was examined, with the help of a questionnaire at the ages of 26 through to 54. Every decade, the questionnaire collects data on each woman's work history, whether she is/was married, has children, her height and weight.

The healthiest women were the ones who had all three of the following:

-- A Partner
-- Children
-- A job

Those reporting the worst health were stay-at-home mothers, followed by childless women and single mothers.

38% of stay-at-home mothers were obese when they reached their 50s, for working mothers the percentage was 23%.

Written by: Christian Nordqvist
Editor: Medical News Today

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:01pm
What kind of experience does a 20 year old have that has been sitting behind a desk being influenced by other people?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:01pm
evne my die hard conservative republican family members no longer support this war or this administration - so i tend to call them pretty wise
Jennie
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:03pm

"You're right. They don't threaten us at all."


What does this mean?

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:03pm

Well, that's your family. Can they speak for every other American family?

No, wait, the polls that poll 100 people in liberal areas are correct.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:04pm

So how has he threatened your safety?


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:05pm
personally i wouldnt feel comfortable going to mexico on vacation - what does that have to do with anything. you keep saying he is a threat to every american - if you are so certain of that why can you not say how he is a threat to every american. by the way, i am an american and i dont feel the least bit threatened by castro.
Jennie
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:07pm
Seriously? The impression I've had is that Castro (and Cuba) would more than happily soak up American tourist dollars. That's kind of hard to do if one is supposedly threatening their lives simultaneously. It's the U.S. that has put restrictions on travel to Cuba, not the other way around.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:09pm
Castro? He's not a threat to any Americans. There are lots of places I wouldn't go on vacation for my own safety. Those places are no threat to me so long as I stay away from them.
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:10pm
But, it's okay to call people idiotic and stupid for what the believe in. Okay.
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:13pm
Why do you think they put travel restrictions on travel to that country?

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