Dietary Behaviors ID'd on Night Shifts for Health Care Workers With T2D

Summary: Working the night shift is incredibly tough, especially for nurses and health care workers who have Type 2 diabetes. A new study looked at how working through the night changes what these heroes eat and how much they move. Researchers found that on night shift days, workers are awake for over 22 hours and walk nearly 14,000 steps! Because they are so exhausted and busy, they eat more often (about 7 times a shift) and take in more calories overall. They also eat almost twice as many sweet snacks compared to their days off. All this snacking and stress causes their blood sugar levels to jump around a lot more. The study points out that doctors really need to ask patients about their work schedules, because working the night shift makes managing diabetes much harder.

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