Saturday when he came home from working the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter, Houston said.

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Past research has linked the graveyard shift to certain health issues, in part because it disrupts our circadian rhythm and shifts body chemistry.

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Jet lag makes you overeat, and graveyard shift workers face significant health risks including diabetes, obesity, heart attack and stroke from defying their natural circadian rhythms.

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You and me got the graveyard shift this week.

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On a typical graveyard shift, 60 technicians, wearing white lab coats to prevent static electricity from gumming up computer components, hunch over kaput keyboards and screens, fixing them with screwdrivers and color analyzers.

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He was persistent in sending off demo tapes to radio stations in the North West, eventually getting the chance to present for Red Rose Radio in Preston where he stayed for almost 13 years, and presented every programme on the station from the overnight graveyard shift to the former five hour 'all speech' sports programme.

BBC: Lancashire - Presenter profile: John Gillmore

I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.

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To blame is not merely night shift work but shifting shifts--rotations from morning to afternoon to graveyard.

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When declining ratings pushed WGCL-TV in Atlanta to shift Martha Stewart Living from its 9 a.m. time slot to the viewership graveyard at 3:30 a.m.

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