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🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Working irregular hours, including overnight, means meal times can be disrupted.
So what impact does this have on the body and overall health?
We hear from workers in Mumbai and Lagos about their experiences, plus get advice from a dietician about what and when you should be eating.
Produced and presented by Marie Keyworth.
(Image: Workers in a construction camp cutting metal at night. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:30.8 | probably familiar with the phrase you are what you eat. But what about the idea that you are |
| 0:36.1 | when you eat too? What we put in our bodies for |
| 0:39.5 | energy and nutrition has a huge impact on our overall health. What is often overlooked is how the |
| 0:45.2 | time of day or night that we eat can have a big influence as well. This is particularly |
| 0:50.9 | true for shift workers, especially those who are awake, working during the night. |
| 0:56.7 | In today's program, we'll be looking at how nighttime eating has a totally different effect on the body |
| 1:01.9 | compared to eating in the day. |
| 1:04.0 | I guess the fundamental thing we have to be aware of is that our digestive system doesn't function in the same way during the night as it does during |
| 1:11.3 | the daytime. And I really wish somebody had told me that when I first started working shift work. |
| 1:16.4 | And we suggest some ways that shift workers might be able to change their habits to balance out the |
| 1:21.5 | effect of night working on their overall health. So they all stopped eating even if they were |
| 1:27.0 | working a shift at around 7 p.m. |
| 1:29.8 | And when they did this, we found that there were some significant benefits. |
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| 1:38.5 | I take care of patients in the intensive care unit, that is an ICU. |
| 1:47.0 | And I work in a shift duties, |
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