A new study has found that shift work can put workers out of sync with their body clocks leading to more severe strokes. Researcher David Earnest from the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine said that the body is synchronized to night and day by circadian rhythms and a person on a shift work schedule especially on rotating shifts challenges or confuses their internal body clocks by having irregular sleep-wake patterns or meal times. According to Earnest it's not the longer hours or the weird hours necessarily that is the problem. Instead it is the change in the