by Audra Starkey | Mar 16, 2017 | Nutrition, Recipes
Gastrointestinal complaints are certainly a common ailment amongst those who work 24/7, in particular those who work the dreaded “night shift”. This is because a lot of gastrointestinal functions decrease at night, and when we work (and eat) out of sync...
by Audra Starkey | Mar 12, 2017 | Nutrition, Recipes
As a night shifter, do you often feel like you want to curl up into a ball and have a snooze at 3am? Perhaps you’ve been on a string of early shifts and you can barely string to words together until you’ve had that morning hit of caffeine?! Well...
by Audra Starkey | Feb 16, 2017 | Uncategorised
I think we can all agree that night shift is pretty tough, actually let’s not sugar coat it, it’s incredibly tough. Considering human beings, or more specifically shift workers, are the only creatures on the planet to completely disobey their biological...
by Audra Starkey | Dec 28, 2016 | HSW, Nutrition, Podcast
Healthy Shift Worker Episode 25: Holy smokes! Can you imagine working shift work for over 50 years? That’s 50 years of disrupted sleep, getting out of bed in the dark, working weekends, public holidays and time away from family at Christmas? Well my mind boggles at...
by Audra Starkey | Nov 19, 2016 | Night shift, Nutrition, Recipes
After spending a year in clinical practice chatting with shift workers from an array of different occupations, one of the things I noticed when undergoing individual dietary assessments, was how many of my clients would succumb to eating ‘comfort foods’...
