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Shift workers 'risking' Type 2 diabetes and obesity
BBC News ^ | 11 April 2012 | James Gallagher

Posted on 04/14/2012 7:41:00 PM PDT by neverdem

Shift workers getting too little sleep at the wrong time of day may be increasing their risk of diabetes and obesity, according to researchers.

The team is calling for more measures to reduce the impact of shift working following the results of its study.

Researchers controlled the lives of 21 people, including meal and bedtimes.

The results, published in Science Translational Medicine, showed changes to normal sleep meant the body struggled to control sugar levels.

Some participants even developed early symptoms of diabetes within weeks.

Shift work has been associated with a host of health problems.

Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in the US, were trying to study its effects in a controlled environment.Lower insulin levels

The 21 health-trial participants started with 10 hours' sleep at night. This was followed by three weeks of disruption to their sleep and body clocks.

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The evidence is clear that getting enough sleep is important for health, and that sleep should be at night for best effect”

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The length of the day was extended to 28 hours, creating an effect similar to a full-time flyer constantly getting jet lag.

Participants were allowed only 6.5 hours' sleep in the new 28-hour day, equivalent to 5.6 hours in a normal day. They also lived in dim light to prevent normal light resetting the body clock...

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Testing
KEYWORDS: obesity; shiftwork; type2diabetes
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1 posted on 04/14/2012 7:41:06 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Shift work will kill you.


2 posted on 04/14/2012 7:43:58 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I did not see it in my rearview mirror.)
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To: neverdem

Looking for more research grant money.


3 posted on 04/14/2012 7:45:45 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: BipolarBob

I loved second shift. The job and alcohol were my whole life but I liked living while everyone else was sleeping. All my friends were 2nd shift people too. It wasn’t unusual for me to have visitors at 4 AM.


4 posted on 04/14/2012 7:47:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: chessplayer

” Looking for more research grant money. “

Yeah - enough to run their labs, three shifts, around the clock...


5 posted on 04/14/2012 7:48:21 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: BipolarBob

Let’s all stop shift work and just bum around with EBT cards.


6 posted on 04/14/2012 7:48:42 PM PDT by max americana
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To: cripplecreek

That’s a straight shift. Try working a rotating shift (all three shifts) and see if your bowels know whether to push or pull.


7 posted on 04/14/2012 7:49:45 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I did not see it in my rearview mirror.)
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To: BipolarBob

WORD! I loved rotating shifts from a lifestyle perspective. But I suspect that it was hard on my health.


8 posted on 04/14/2012 7:51:12 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Lysandru

They have the internet in the asylums now? Cool!


9 posted on 04/14/2012 7:52:56 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I did not see it in my rearview mirror.)
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To: cripplecreek

Not too mention that you’re free to do things during the daily freely, while most others face lineups.


10 posted on 04/14/2012 7:53:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
11 posted on 04/14/2012 7:55:58 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Jonty30

Not too mention that you’re free to do things during the daily freely, while most others face lineups.

That’s why I always chose 2nd shift. I’d do my real work while I was rested and then go to work to rest up. Actually, I had a job that I could usually do in 2-3 hours with the rest of the night to read a book while on call.


12 posted on 04/14/2012 8:04:44 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: neverdem
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/93/20/1513.full

Don't forget the effect of night lighting on breast cancer.

13 posted on 04/14/2012 8:06:50 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: neverdem

You get old enough and your blood sugar goes up. Used to be you didn’t get old you died of something in your 50s.

Hint: I went off bed time statins and my average fasting glucose level dropped 20 points.


14 posted on 04/14/2012 8:06:56 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Romney just makes me tired all over.)
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To: Jonty30

Yeah I used to do all my shopping in the middle of the night. The night shift at Meijer’s knew me by name and gave me a heads up on sales and things that hadn’t made it to the shelves yet. I was the first person in my county to have Gran Turismo for playstation.


15 posted on 04/14/2012 8:07:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: neverdem

If people in the medical world really believed this they wouldn’t have all constant shift changes common to most hospitals. It is easy to adjust to most shifts than change all the time.


16 posted on 04/14/2012 8:11:35 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ("Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!")
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To: ThomasThomas

If people in the medical world really believed this they wouldn’t have all constant shift changes common to most hospitals. It is easy to adjust to most shifts than change all the time.


Good point. Makes this look even more like a begging-for-more-taxpayer money “study.”


17 posted on 04/14/2012 8:19:17 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: neverdem
my wife's job schedules her at all hours of the day and night.

She has been doing it for 18 years and hasn't had any health problems because of it.

She's 74 and weighs 115# without any diabetes problems.

18 posted on 04/14/2012 8:26:23 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: neverdem

I never had any trouble with my Glucose levels until I started working 2300-0900 shift four days a week. Before the night shift my levels were at 100-101 at all times. After a year and a half of the night shift I had developed Type 2. Now I go through the daily shot routine and my levels can go as high as 250.

SF


19 posted on 04/14/2012 8:26:52 PM PDT by SwampFoxOfVa
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To: Fractal Trader

Thanks for the link!


20 posted on 04/14/2012 8:30:05 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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