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'White' light suppresses the body's production of melatonin
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| 09-12-2011
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Posted on 09/12/2011 7:41:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: ShadowAce
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posted on
09/12/2011 7:42:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
To: Red Badger
Hello friend:
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posted on
09/12/2011 7:45:21 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Red Badger
I smell algore!
To: Red Badger
"Just as there are regulations and standards for 'classic' pollutants, there should also be regulations and rules for pollution stemming from artificial light at night," says Prof. Abraham Haim I have a better idea, Dr. Haim - How about you buzz off and just let people use whatever light bulbs they jolly well feel like using?
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posted on
09/12/2011 7:48:21 AM PDT
by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
("A gentleman considers what is just; a small man considers what is expedient.")
To: Red Badger
Given that our own government is forcing us to change our lighting methods, we could hypothesize that they are trying to cause premature death by pushing LED lighting on us.
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posted on
09/12/2011 7:54:03 AM PDT
by
Designer
(Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
To: Red Badger
Some degree of regulation used to be a good thing. But not with the Commie nuts who are running things these days.
But people need to know about this. And since it also affects dogs and other animals, probably something needs to be done about it.
I find blue-white LED light intolerable. Worse than the early compact flourescents. But I think eventually they can produce combinations of LED bulbs that produce a decent color, and presumably don’t cause this problem.
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posted on
09/12/2011 7:56:35 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: Designer
This isn’t the bulb the govt is pushing.
The government is pushing compact flourescents—CFLs. I actually wonder if this story wasn’t planted by CFL manufacturers, as LED bulbs are their main competition.
To: Red Badger
If I were into conspiracies, perhaps the supports of these light bulbs want the masses to become sleep deprived and easily agitated.
To: Red Badger
“there should also be regulations and rules...”
Why am I not surprised?
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:03:23 AM PDT
by
mo
To: Red Badger
Does anyone know if the OttLite® falls into this category? They are promoted in craft stores for good color vision, and I have been considering buying a couple of them.
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:03:36 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(To ACLU & its plaintiffs: Stop dragging the public into your personal struggle w/ God. -Mark Baisley)
To: Red Badger; Egon
I can see, from an industrial workplace standpoint, how the wavelength of the installed lighting in an office might be a consideration. We used to use tungsten bulbs, but they were almost entirely replaced by blue-white fluorescents in the office. Then there were "daylight" and "GroLux" variants. Halogen bulbs came along for reading lamps.
The point of the article is to consider the effects of different light sources on the biological clock. Sounds like a long-overdue study. Office workers, especially shift workers, are impacted daily by the light source choices of the architects.
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:05:37 AM PDT
by
RhoTheta
("We're from the Government, and we're here to help you ... NOT")
To: Red Badger
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09/12/2011 8:07:43 AM PDT
by
janereinheimer
((I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.))
To: Red Badger
So, what did humans do before the invention of the light bulb? Was there no Melatonin?
This sound like another Luddite hackjob on technology.
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:12:22 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: Red Badger
To: CodeToad
Before lightbulbs humans used sunlight when available and firelight at other times ,and slept(or whatever) when it was dark.
I think the professor is saying yellowish light is more natural and doesn’t adversely affect the body.
Incandesent bulbs are probably better for your eyes and over all health than any of the strobing,flickering technological marvels.
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:21:24 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: Red Badger
Sounds like some alarmist is pushing for legislation before we even fully understand the problem, or what the solution should be.
There is too much of that nowadays.
Can we install lights in the legislative chambers to make them less hyperactive?
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:28:01 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/12/2011 8:31:27 AM PDT
by
Matchett-PI
(Obamageddon, Barackalypse Now! Bam is "Debt Man Walking" in 2012 - Rush Limbaugh)
To: Designer
Well, that would fix social security.
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posted on
09/12/2011 6:55:59 PM PDT
by
Mercat
To: Red Badger
then why are northern Amerindians rather dark?
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posted on
09/13/2011 8:46:42 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(, Dick Cheney ....get his book...he should have been President)
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