Re: Drivers and Guards food packages

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

<antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message 8q8uoj$tob$1@nnrp1.deja.com">news:8q8uoj$tob$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> I just read a newspaper report that people who do night shifts are more
> prone to heart attacks and diabetes. Apparently the blood glucose level
> rises in the body during the night and when you eat at night especially
> starchy foods (especially unrefined carbohydrates) this causes even
> higher blood glucose levels which eventually wears down the pancreas as
> it has to pump out extra insulin.
>
> Maybe the company health departments should issue guidelines on what
> foods night shift workers should eat, e.g. less carbohydrates, more
> meat and greens.

I think they covered that in the Fatigue Management class - not that anyone
was paying attention.