With thousands of people traveling every day as a part of their jobs, there is great concern aboutthe effect of jet lag on business travelers. In the world of international business, many men andwomen have trouble performing their jobs because they feel tired and sick from all their traveling.Businesspeople are not the only professionals who suffer from jet lag. Professional sports playersalso find that jet lag affects their performance. I have recently read a health report and it looks at theproblem of jet lag in professional baseball. You see, researchers have wondered about how jet lag affects the job performance of peoplewho travel for a living. The problem is that it is very difficult to measure exactly how jet lag affectsmost travelers, how can we measure the performance of, say, an executive who travels to anothercountry to make a business deal？ This is where the idea of looking at baseball comes in, so bylooking at whether baseball teams win or lose games, researchers believe that we can see how jet lagaffects performance in sports, business, and other jobs. In the study, doctors looked at baseball records from 2001 to 2004. They studied theperformance of 19 teams from the Eastern and Pacific time zones, looking at the results of the twogames immediately after a team traveled from one coast to the other. The study shows that changingtime zones may hurt the performance of West Coast baseball teams traveling east for a game, but notEast Coast teams traveling west. The reason, the researchers think, is that people traveling eastsuffer more from the symptoms of jet lag. An example of this effect can be seen in the hesvo6seven league championship series played in2003 between the San Francisco Giants and the Atlanta Braves. The games are played in the homecities of each team, so in 2003 the Atlanta Braves and the San Francisco Giants played the first twogames in Atlanta, the next three games in San Francisco, and the last two games in Atlanta. In thisco ……
