Healthy Living
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Your Mother-in-Law Really Is Bad For Your Health
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If you're one of those people who read that headline
and shook your head in denial, good for you. But let me tell you -
you just aren't normal.
Lucky, yes. Normal. . . well, let scientists in Japan be the
judge. Because a study by Harvard Medical School researchers showed
Japanese women who live with their mothers-in-law are three times
more likely to have a heart attack.
Making this study even more significant? Japanese women are
traditionally at a much lower risk of cardiac disease than those of
us living in the states.
The study followed ninety-one thousand men and women ages forty
to sixty-nine over a ten-year period, determining men had little
affect on their health when Mom came to live with them while their
wives saw a decrease in cardiac health. The women were less likely
to drink and smoke (maybe because they had someone breathing down
their neck, clucking every time they picked up a wineglass?), but
despite not having had any cardiac issues before the study began,
six hundred seventy-one participants had been diagnosed with
coronary artery disease by the study's end and three hundred
thirty-nine had died of heart disease.
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Posted by Rhonda K Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:01am PST
I love my mother-in-law, she can come live with us any time, my mother on the other hand...I love her, but there would be problems!
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Posted by Spam I Am Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:11am PST
Hmmm. Very interesting.
Notice that the study was only of the mothers of the HUSBANDS.
Is that because that's believed to be the worse mother-in-law? Nobody's
good enough for her son?
Japanese society is mucho different from American society, however.
Women are much less emancipated then here. More research needed.
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Posted by bling Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:15am PST
finally! i have serious evidence! lol... i know i'm not happy when either of them is around. i also have the dreaded step-MIL who's much worse! gotta send this to husband.
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Posted by mommaofsun Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:59am PST
I am very lucky. I just love my MIL to pieces. We get along great and have so many things in common. I love going to visit her and my FIL, and we spend about 90% of the time in the kitchen cooking together.
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Posted by whislinpine Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:10am PST
I suggest you ask mothers of married sons and daughters how they feel about this issue.
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Posted by nancy k Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:55am PST
As a soon to be mother-in-law who had an amazing relationship with her in-laws (mother included), it disturbs me to see my future personna painted in such a negative way. If there is one thing I learned from my mother-in-law, it was how to be a good mother-in-law. Don't forget this relationship is a two way street.
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Posted by shasha Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:11am PST
hi
i have the worse mother in law who wants to even make decision for us.About things concerning our baby and even what to buy for our house and what not to buy.My husband is doing everthing she says he says he does n t want to disrespest her wishes for but sick and tired with it
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Posted by Sunshine Tue Jan 6, 2009 6:38pm PST
I can not stand the thought of my in laws. They are horrible horrible people. They tried to stop our marriage. They tried to stop my husbands sisters marriage from taking place. They talk about their son in law to me in a terrible way. I can only imagine what they say about me. She's a wicked witch who hasn't worked in 5 years because she's "disabled". You know...one of those people who are disabled that still vacations on the beach with a pretty little drink in hand. She can shop all day with her husbands credit card and drive there and back with no problem. She can plant a flower garden with ease. She's getting free money each month while I have to bust my butt at work to make less than her I'm sure.
Great in laws huh?
I almost have a heart attack just thinking of them.
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