A new study confirms that shift workers — people who work late nights, irregular hours or mixed night-and-day schedules — …
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Why Sleepy People Reach for Junk Food
If you’ve ever ended up at a greasy diner ravenous at 4 in the morning, this will come as no surprise: new studies find that a sleepy brain is more drawn to junk food than a well-rested one, and that it’s also less equipped to …
Unhealthy Eating as Occupational Hazard?
If you’ve ever sat at your desk scarfing a vending-machine lunch, then you’d probably agree with the authors of a recent editorial in the journal PLoS Medicine, who wrote: “[U]nhealthy eating could legitimately be considered a …