![]() ![]() ![]() When we finally do get home in the morning, though, we may disproportionately crave unhealthy foods. ![]() We may have no control over the lighting at our workplace, but we can try to minimize overnight food intake, which has been shown to help limit the negative metabolic consequences of shift work. Just as avoiding bright light at night can prevent circadian misalignment, so can avoiding night eating. Our bodies just weren’t designed to handle food at night. No wonder shift workers are at higher risk shifting meals to the night in a simulated night shift protocol turned about a third of the subjects effectively prediabetic in just 10 days. Redistributing eating to the nighttime resulted in elevated cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation. Graveyard shift, indeed! But, is it just because they’re eating out of vending machines, or not getting enough sleep? Highly controlled studies have recently attempted to tease out these other factors by putting people on the same diets, with the same sleep, but just at the wrong time of day. Shift workers may have higher rates of death from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Below is an approximation of this video’s audio content.
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