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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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:13pm

How?

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:13pm
what are you talking about now. the question was if a family member said they supported the war/admin what would i call them - i answered the question for my fmaily - just as the question was posed
Jennie
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:14pm
I know that there's people who do go there. When something happens to them, who are they going to blame?
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:15pm
Oh, ok, so you would treat family members like that. Interesting.
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:16pm
What kind of experience do they have? Fashion experience! Lots of 20yo's are snappy dressers (and lots aren't). Remember- the only advice she got from this 20yo was fashion advice. I'd definately take fashion advice from a 20yo. One of the problems of aging (although the least important one) is getting stuck in a rut and dressing by default and inertia- because it's the way we've always dressed. Twenty yo's by virtue of their youth haven't had enough time to get stuck in a fashion rut. Some of them merely copy the fads of others, but some have a youthful eye unfettered either by the ruts of age or the faddishness of youth.
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:16pm

The same as a 40 year old who has done the exact same thing.

PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:17pm
to try to keep us dollars out of the country in an attempt to weaken castro, which has failed miserably.
Jennie
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:17pm

Mine don't either.


PumpkinAngel

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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:18pm
Politics. If safety were the issue, why aren't there travel restrictions on the Philippines, Egypt, Israel or any number of other countries that are far more dangerous for tourists (American or otherwise)?
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Tue, 06-06-2006 - 3:18pm

Exactly and I understand it's supposed to be beautiful.

PumpkinAngel

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