Shift Workers and Eating Disorders
Matt Jones2020-06-15T13:48:50+00:00This week marks Eating Disorders Awareness Week. At a time when higher rates of obesity and ill-health have been found in shift workers than [...]
February Superfood of the Month – Pancakes
Matt Jones2023-02-20T16:37:21+00:00Can Pancakes Really be a Healthy Shift Work Superfood? It's nearly Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day, the day when thousands of households around the [...]
January Superfood of the Month – Haggis!
Matt Jones2019-01-23T11:59:47+00:00This week, is the annual celebration of the life and work of the great Scottish Bard, Robert Burns. On January 25, Scots and people [...]
Night Shift Workers More Likely to Become Obese – Nurses Especially At Risk
Matt Jones2020-06-15T13:57:58+00:00Research published recently suggests that in the UK National Health Service (NHS) a quarter of nurses are obese, rising to almost half among those [...]
Superfood of the Month – Brussels Sprouts, the unsung superfood!
Matt Jones2019-12-16T17:25:08+00:00The seasonal Christmas vegetable that divides us like no other! Love them or loath them, at Christmas, it’s hard to get away from Brussels Sprouts. Let's [...]
More Christmas Shift Workers Than Ever This Year
Matt Jones2017-11-23T14:10:07+00:00It’s Black Friday Week - Which means that more and more people are being employed in part time shift work as retailers gear up for [...]
Shift Workers Tips for Sleeping
Matt Jones2019-10-04T14:49:01+00:00Shift workers are finding new ways to get better quality sleep. Indiana University study helps its staff to get the night's rest they need. Shift [...]
Superfood of the month – Pumpkin
Matt Jones2020-06-15T14:01:09+00:00We all have our favourite winter food we like to tuck into as the nights draw in, but could eating ‘superfood’ give you special [...]
7 Reasons Why Some People Love Working a Night Shift
Matt Jones2022-07-25T15:36:15+00:00Does anyone like working night shifts? Everybody hates shift work … don’t they? Well, no. It appears that there are plenty of people who [...]
New to Shift Work? Here’s some tips for surviving the slog
Matt Jones2020-06-10T09:14:24+00:00Starting a new job is daunting – but if you're starting shift work it's doubly so! Not only have you got new work to get [...]