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’...
Healthy Shift Worker Podcast Episode 9: This week Audra chats with fellow health professional and Paediatrician Dr Katrina Hurley who is an Emergency Doctor based in Halifax, Canada and has a similar interest in nutrition to support shift workers. Dr Hurley is a...
When I signed up to work shift work all those years ago, nobody told me how hard it was going to be. Nobody warned me that walking around in a zombie-like state was actually going to be “the norm” for the next two decades of my life. Not only did...
As shift workers we’re certainly prone to eating all of the wrong types of foods as we often feel too tired to cook thanks to a lifestyle dictated by ongoing sleep deprivation, particularly when we’ve experienced a run of early or night shifts. But is your shift...
If you struggle with working shift work – you are not alone. In fact a question I get asked often is “How on earth did I manage to work shift work for over 20 years?” And that’s a really good question, because I struggled – I really did....
