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I've Hardly Sleep At Night
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that working the night shift might lead to hormonal and metabolic changes that raise risks for obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Scientists found that markers involved in regulating body weight--specifically leptin, insulin, and cortisol--are affected by "shift work," and this seems to increase people's risk for these unhealthy conditions. Statistics suggest that 8.6 million Americans perform shift...
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