填空题 Married mothers who also hold jobs, despite having to juggle career and home, enjoy 1 health than their underemployed or childless peers. Data from a long-term study launched in the UK in 1946 shows that such working moms are the 2 likely to be obese 3 middle age and the most likely to report generally good health. And this result cannot be explained simply 4 the healthiest women take on the most.
Epidemiologist Anne McMunn of University College London drew more than 1,400 female 5 from a study of 5,362 Britons born during the first week of March 1946. Followed 6 their lives, including face-to-face interviews at 7 26, 36, 46 and 53, the women provided data from both their own views of their health as well as 8 measures such as body-mass index. By assessing both 9 and objective information, the researchers hoped to discover 10 working moms undertook such multitasking because of their inherent 11 or achieved good health because of their multiple roles.
Of the 555 working mothers, only 23 percent proved obese 12 age 53, compared to 38 percent of the 151 full-time homemakers, 13 also averaged the highest body-mass index of all six categories of 14 , rounded out by single working mothers, the childless, multiply-married working moms and intermittently-employed married mothers. In 15 , full-time homemakers reported the most poor health, 16 by single mothers and the childless.
Of course, the data do not show 17 working moms are healthiest but the women"s view of their own health at 26 did not correlate 18 whether they undertook 19 careers and families, seeming to discount a definitive role for good health in determining a woman"s choices. Working correlated with low body mass 20 all groups, including single moms and childless women.