I'm sorry, but I'm confused. Are they saying the night shift workers get less sunshine than day workers?
Why would this be so? Over the course of a year (or 6 months equinox to equinox), there are roughly equal daylight hours and night time hours...
If we assume we work between 8-10 hours incl commute and lunch, sleep 6-8 hours, we are left with roughly 8 hours leisure time. Now for me, that's mostly at night, early morning or late afternoon in summer - but for all the shift workers I know, when they do night shift they get to go to the beach, ride in the park, and generally enjoy life in the sun. One cop friend of mine has a great tan whenever he is on night shift, which fades when he's on day shift.
It's not like these night shift workers are sleeping in darkened rooms from sunrise to sunset every day all year...
Surely it's related to meal breaks or diet variance or something - this is colon health we're talking about...
The few nurses I personally know who work at hospitals, at least here in KC, work 12 hour shifts. With commute, that's, say, 13 hours. Minimum 8 hours sleep because hospital nursing is stressful work leaves 3 hours leisure time -- minus 1 hour to shower and eat before going to work, and 1 hour to shower and eat after coming home, and those are probably the only 2 meals of the day. Diet could be an issue, but stress is more likely, including the stress of fighting your regular body rhythms to be awake at night, the stress of hospital work, and the stress of no leisure time to speak of, except for on the weekends.
(The few nurses I personally know who work at hospitals, I don't see very often.)
That's why lots of nurses either try to get jobs with doctor's offices or at non-hospital research facilities, or leave nursing altogether.
Reggie Bautista YMMV, of course
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