Re: Drivers and Guards food packages

[antstig@my-deja.com]

In article <39c84ca5$0$26544$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
  "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
>
> <antstig@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > 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.

I think we call it Shift Awareness or some such crap. They only give it
out because it makes look caring and as if they are doing something.

Regards

Frank


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