Posted on 05/15/2006 8:48:55 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
Women who juggle career and family tend to be thinner and healthier as they approach midlife than long-term stay-at-home moms, a new study suggests.
Researchers tracked the health of a group of British women from their mid-20s to their mid-50s and found that full-time homemakers were the most likely to be obese in their sixth decade.
Women in long-term relationships who had raised kids while they held jobs outside the home were least likely to be overweight, and they also reported being in better overall health.
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No, lets just let the State raise our kids. It is what the feminazi's and all the rest of the commie scum want anyway. It's written in their manifesto.
What an idiotic study. Anyone can be thinner and healthier, it takes self discipline.
I find this very difficult to believe. Since when dos sitting behind a desk trying to juggle family and work make one thinner and healthier?
And one thing is for certain: The kids are typically much worse off when their mom works outside the home.
This is BOGUS...lots of heavy weights with kids are working. Trust In Hoc on this, he sees the tons'o fun...everyday :-)
My problem as a stay-at-home Mom was that I cleaned everyone's plates.
Gee, and all along I thought weight gain was about calorie intake vs output. I guess I should just start eating bon bons, getting fat is inevitable since I stay at home.
The children however, are screwed up at much higher rates.
Why didn't they just use that as the headline? It seems to be pretty much what they meant.
The important question is, are the kids happier and healthier?
Actually, this is a misleading study. It all depends on person to person, mother-to-mother.
Funny, what I've seen is just the opposite. The stay-at-home moms in our neighborhood have a lot more spare time to take walks, go to exercise class, swim, garden, etc. The working moms are so exhausted from work that they have neither the time nor the energy to get much exercise, so they gain weight.
The researchers are just confusing correlation with causality once again. The difference in weight is not related to working but to social class. The upper-middle class is more likely to chuck their kids into daycare and go off to be executives and lawyers all day, and they're also the ones who tend to be thin for social reasons. Working class folks tend to be heavier. They're also more likely to stay home with their kids, partly due to good values and sheer love of their children, and partly because they don't make enough money to make daycare financially viable. The same stay-at-home moms who are heavier would be heavier if they went back to work; work doesn't make you lose weight. On the contrary.
I wonder if they did a study of those women who had children before their twenties that went to work in their 30's after the kids were raised.
Or how about the women who had career during their 20's and 30's and gave birth in their 40's and stayed home with the kids.
Too many variables.
Funny, the word 'happier' appears to be missing. :o)
U forgot about the high dollar trophy wives (that stay at home), which stay in shape after having kids, cuz, that't what they're paid for.
I realize this is silly comment, but it's a silly article...when you think about it.
Curiously, I was in WORSE shape when I was a cubicle jockey.
"partly due to good values and sheer love of their children"
So good mothers automatically mean stay at home. Who's confusing correlation and causality now? :)
Are working women thinner?
As a group, perhaps.
Are they "healthier"?
I seriously doubt it.
My stay-at-home wife is thinner and healthier because she makes time to plan great meals, walk on her treadmill or take the kids for walks. Oh, by the way, Our kids are 3 and 1 year old and she babysits an 18 month old 3 days a week.
Did I mention that she gave up her career in orthodontia to be a mom?
Exactly!
What do you wanna bet that the children of "working moms" are far more likely to be obese, than children of stay-at home moms?
I'd bet the ranch on that.
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