1.What seeme to make women relatively healthy, according to Dr Anne McMumn? A combining of ...

2.Who is the object of Dr Anne McMumn's study? ... women born in 1946.

3.Who have the highest risk of being unhealthy, according to Dr Anne McMumn's research? The women who had been ...

Juggling a career along with being a wife or partner and parent may help

to keep women healthy, scientists said on Monday. After analyzing data from

a study that tracked the health of Britons born in 1946, they found that

women who had multiple roles were less likely than homemakers, single

mothers or childless females to report poor health or to be obese in middle

age. "Women who occupied multiple roles over the long term reported

relatively good health at age 54," said Dr Anne McMunn, of University

College London. "It looks like women are relatively healthy as a result of

combining work and family life." In the study published in the Journal of

Epidemiology and Community Health, McMunn and her team analyzed self-

reported health records of more than 2,000 women at the ages of 26 and 54

and their body mass index, a method of measuring obesity. Information on

their marital status, work history and whether they had children was also

included. The researchers found that women who had been homemakers most of

their lives were most likely to report poor health, followed by single

mothers and childless women. Homemakers tended to gain weight more quickly

and had the highest rate of obesity at 38 percent while women who were

employees, wives and mothers had the lowest. McMunn said it has been known

for some time that women who combine employment with motherhood and

partnership have better health. But it was not clear whether they were

working and having children because they were healthy, or whether they were

healthy because they were combining the two.