If you are one of the ‘lucky ones’ rostered to work Christmas day this year then it can be pretty tough, particularly for those with young families, as everyone wants to witness the unwrapping frenzy of all of those goodies left under the tree by Santa the...
Do you have days when your brain is foggy and you forget even the littlest of things? Well it’s not surprising as more and more research shows a direct link between sleep deprivation, cognitive impairment and memory loss. As so many of our occupations require...
One of the major challenges I hear from shift workers is a constant struggle to lose weight. An expanding waistline that seems to steadily creep up on us over the years and before we know it, we need to buy larger sizes of clothes in the hope that it may help...
As I sit at my desk pondering what I can write about in this week’s blog post, it occurred to me that I needed to ask you a question and that is: “How ‘adaptable’ are you to working shift work?” By this I mean when you signed up to be a...
In your search to find the missing link between overcoming insomnia, sleep-deprivation and shift work, have you ever researched websites or purchased a book about sleep? Let me guess. Some of the content of the book read like this. “Get more sleep” they...
