As someone who works irregular hours, have you ever had any “healthy shift worker training” throughout your shift working career? Quite simply, has anyone ever entered your workplace (that actually worked shift work themselves and knows exactly what you’re going...
Yesterday I was talking to a potential client, who was bit unsure and hesitant about working with me, so I decided to ask her a few questions regarding her current lifestyle habits. Because let’s face it, our diet and lifestyle habits are often one of the firsts thing...
Healthy Shift Worker Podcast Episode: This week I chat about my all time favourite topic – Food Timing, or the more fancier, scientific way to describe it is Chrononutrition. Chrononutrition involves the study of how nutrition impacts on our metabolism, via our...
Something I hear often from many of my shift working clients is “ever since starting shift work, I’ve continued to gain weight.” Perhaps this is something that you can relate too as well. But why is this so? Well the etiology (or cause) of weight...
My uniform must be shrinking! Those were the words I said to myself as I slowly began to gain weight soon after commencing my career in aviation way back in 1994. Within 12 months of starting shift work I had gained 10 kilograms. Ouch! I couldn’t work out what was...
