For shift workers, odd hours usually mean strange sleeping habits and unhealthy meals. And now an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine takes the position that unhealthy eating associated with unusual working hours could be considered a new form of occupational hazard. Because such eating is a risk factor for obesity and diabetes.
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According to a soon-to-be-published study in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are seven times more likely to report having lung problems compared with non-deployed vets. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports.
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