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The following was taken from the end of a newpaper article written by MARIA CHENG of the Associated Press titled ‘WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT THE NEWEST CANCER RISK? ‘GRAVEYARD’ HOURS TO JOIN GROUP’S LIST OF ‘PROBABLE’ CARCINOGENS’.

SEEING THE LIGHT
Scientists theorize that night workers have a greater risk for cancer because it is so hard — or even rare — for them to get enough sleep in the darkness their bodies need.
– * The hormone melatonin, which is believed to fight tumor growth, only develops during darkness.
– * Melatonin supplements are not advised as a remedy, since they may hinder the body’s ability to produce the hormone naturally.
– * Even worse than working night shifts is fluctuating between night and day work.
– * Night workers can help themselves by getting as much daily rest as possible in a darkened room.

– * How many people might be affected? As many as 20 percent of workers in the developed world.

 I am not sure if this is true or not but I do know working night shift has to be managed or it will affect your life in a negative way.

Below is list of catch phrases that were created attempting to come up with someway of conveying the messege of Shift Shade on a billboard.  For your viewing pleasure they have not been edited or changed but copied and pasted from the original list.   I will admit some are pretty silly but this was brainstorming and we are blogging!!!  Please feel free to add your own!

• Turn day into night
• Sleep all day
• Total darkness for daytime sleep
• Pitch black darkness for great sleep
• Create a cave in your bedroom
• Enter…The bat cave
• Dark as the inside of a cow (Cleve’s comment after I gave him an in home demonstration)
• Are my eyes open?
• Too dark to sleep
• Scary dark
• Darker than night
• For a good night sleep, all day (slogan on cards/web site)
• Darkness to sleep by
• You don’t know darkness
• You haven’t seen dark
• Yea, it’s that dark
• Artificial darkness
• Artificial night
• For a good days sleep
• Ready, Set, Sleep
• Never lose a good days sleep again
• Best daytime sleep you will ever get
• Work all night, sleep all day
• Up all night, sleep all day

I never did use any of these on a billboard!  Decided it was to difficult to get the idea of daytime darkness across to someone driving down an interstate. 

The following quote is when I was in the early development stages for the most effective rod configuration and giving my oldest brother Cleve a demonstration.  After I installed the shade in his daughter’s window, shut the door and cut the light out, the first words out of his mouth were “it is darker than the inside of a cow“! 

I have been holding on to this knowing I had to use it somewhere.  Almost used it as a testimonial but coming from my brother I did not think that was appropiate. 

I don’t know how dark a cow’s insides are or how he would know, but I would have to imagine it is pretty dark!

This is a place to discuss my product ShiftShade along with info on shift work and day sleeping. Thanks for stopping by.