Re: Fruit consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from three prospective longitudinal cohort studies
As a consultant providing specialist obesity service to four towns in Yorkshire, I come across more nurses now seeking help with weight loss.
Nurses are the backbone to an efficient NHS. It is therefore important that nurses are physically and psychologically healthy to provide an optimal service. Working as a nurse in the current climate is not easy. The demands placed on them by numerous protocols and guidelines have increased their workload. Despite this nurses provide an excellent service. In appreciation of their hard work patients and their relatives gift them with sweets which are either bought from the hospital shops or nearby superstore. Walk into any ward, more so during visiting hours, you will find a few open chocolate boxes and nurses inadvertently eating whilst performing their usual errands.
With the evidence produced by Muraki et al, whilst analysing the cohort from the Nurses’ Health Study, All hospitals should ban sweets for nurses, instead fruits should be available in different sized hampers. This should be as easy to enforce just as flowers are not allowed. These fruit hampers should have more of apples, blueberries and grapes.
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Re: Fruit consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from three prospective longitudinal cohort studies
As a consultant providing specialist obesity service to four towns in Yorkshire, I come across more nurses now seeking help with weight loss.
Nurses are the backbone to an efficient NHS. It is therefore important that nurses are physically and psychologically healthy to provide an optimal service. Working as a nurse in the current climate is not easy. The demands placed on them by numerous protocols and guidelines have increased their workload. Despite this nurses provide an excellent service. In appreciation of their hard work patients and their relatives gift them with sweets which are either bought from the hospital shops or nearby superstore. Walk into any ward, more so during visiting hours, you will find a few open chocolate boxes and nurses inadvertently eating whilst performing their usual errands.
With the evidence produced by Muraki et al, whilst analysing the cohort from the Nurses’ Health Study, All hospitals should ban sweets for nurses, instead fruits should be available in different sized hampers. This should be as easy to enforce just as flowers are not allowed. These fruit hampers should have more of apples, blueberries and grapes.
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