Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

This is episode 411 of the podcast.

My name is Danny Lennon and here with me is of course Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today?

I'm good. I'm kind of ticking into the final sprint we were talking about in terms of writing up the thesis.

And congratulations are in order for another

published paper? Yeah, so that was good news, got that published, was published today, actually.

So it's in nursing report. So that was actually from my MSC research, which was looking at the

dietary intakes primarily in 20 NHS nurses, but we had data on

their children, because the original research, which was a sociology PhD, was looking at the impact

of shift work on a family unit, you know, within the family unit. And there was a range of kind of

sleep and kind of measures like cortisol and stuff like that that they took melatonin. That was all

published previously. But they also did 14 days of diet diaries. So we had the data for the children,

dependent children and the partners and male partners. And the initial nurses analysis was interesting.

But we kind of thought, we have this data and it was analyzed, you know,

and it is interesting because, you know,

kind of brings in some of these more social and environmental factors.

So what we were basically asking was, well,

was there an effect of the in-home diet on nights when mom was working shifts

and was out of the home?

What was, if any, the impact on diets in?

We were particularly interested in the children,

but we analyzed the partners as well.

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