I read a book which said that if you have to change your sleep patterns, your odds of getting cancer go way up.
I know there are a lot of us who have taken a job like that for a year or more and think we have adjusted OK. Sometimes there is a killer schedule like midnight to morning one week; early starts the next - no effort made to plan a transition.
Will this damage us long-term? The book read like it was recognised and would eventually be common knowledge. Huh, a bit late for us all! Am I right to be wary?
You always hear of such things with firemen or police or army being put down to stress. But they are groups who are constitutionally expected to have no right to object. When they die, they are honored. How fair is that? How much of the stress is from weird schedules?
Is distorting your sleep patterns a trigger-factor for cancer? It's a scary thought, because it is so preventable. And do people who sleep longer, live longer, as a group?
2006-06-15
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