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| A recent study in Britain reveals that
working momhers are less likely to become obese than women who who are
fulltime stay-at-home housewives.(file
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BEIJING, May 15
(Xinhuanet) -- A recent study in Britain reveals that working mothers are less
likely to become obese than women who who are fulltime stay-at-home
housewives.
The study was published in the British Medical
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The study said that women who are fulltime homemakers
gained weight at a faster rate. About 38 percent of them were likely to be
obese compared to 23 percent of women who juggled between domestic and
social roles.
Research leader Dr Anne McMunn, of University College
London, tracked women born in 1946 and analysed their health aged 26 and 54 —
along with their jobs, marital status and number of children.
They found that by the age of 54 women who have been
housewives for all or most of their lives are most likely to say their health is
poor, or they are more likely to be heavier.
But women who have been wives, mothers and employees are
much less likely to suffer ill health or be fatties.
The researchers conclude that good health among women
is more likely to be the result, rather than the cause, of multiple role
occupation. Enditem
(Agencies)
