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TRUCKERS' HEALTH * The Netherlands - Going Dutch for healthy living
Survey: The drivers on the healthy diet perceived themselves to be less irritable and more satisfied as a result of their regular mealtime routines
(So ... we'll not see more this tipical trucker ... ?? I don't believe so!!) The Netherlands -HGV -8 July 2009: -- Volvo Trucks has discovered that by eating more healthily, truck drivers can considerably improve their response times - and ultimately, that may save lives out on the road... As a result of closely monitoring a recent Danish survey, Volvo Trucks in the Netherlands is now introducing health care as one of the courses in its driver training programme... The link between what a driver eats and traffic safety is not particularly new. What is new is how clearly the body is affected by poor diet and how quickly it is possible to restore it and thus improve traffic safety... The original survey conducted by lifestyle consultant Mette-Marie Linding, produced in co-operation with the Danish Transport Union's educational foundation, shows that drivers with an unhealthy diet had a longer stopping distance than those drivers who ate more healthily... In order to investigate the link she used two groups; one consisting of 23 drivers who maintained a healthy and nutritious diet according to the food circle, while the other group's members continued with their regular diet. Over a period of twelve days, the participants' reaction times were tested a number of times in a simulator. However, as early as the second day, a noticeable difference in response times could be observed between the two groups. This can be explained by the fact that unhealthy food, which causes blood glucose to peak quickly and then dive, puts the body into a state of imbalance, resulting in mood swings, headaches, increased stress and poorer powers of concentration... Those drivers who ate regularly and healthily and who therefore had a steadier blood glucose level, had reaction times that were, on average, 16 per cent faster than the drivers in the other test group. At the same time, the drivers on the healthy diet perceived themselves to be less irritable and more satisfied as a result of their regular mealtime routines... The survey also shows that in just twelve days, it is possible to reduce blood pressure and blood cholesterol so much that they no longer need to be treated... In addition, a more visible result was noticed: the drivers who ate more healthily lost up to seven kilos (15.5 lbs) during the test's twelve days... At Volvo Trucks in the Netherlands, these results have been noted with considerable interest and from last autumn, the company included health as a compulsory course in all of its driver training programmes... (Ball Gut Photo Guy: "Fat Trucker")
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