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An Hour at What Cost? The Harmful Effects of Daylight Savings
WEBMD ^ | 11-5-21 | Lindsay Kalter

Posted on 11/06/2021 5:54:29 AM PDT by dynachrome

In a 2015 study published in Sleep Medicine, researchers compared the rate of strokes during the week after daylight saving to the rate 2 weeks before or 2 weeks after. They found the rate was 8% higher the first 2 days after the shift, and people with cancer were 25% more likely to have a stroke than during other times of year. People over 65 were 20% more likely.

A 2019 report found a higher risk of heart attack after both time changes, but particularly during daylight saving.

Interruptions to circadian rhythm can also impair focus and judgment. A 2020 study found fatal traffic accidents increased by 6% in the United States during daylight saving time.

“Most people think an hour would be inconsequential,” Czeisler says. “And it's true that we can adjust. But even that small adjustment does have consequences.”

(Excerpt) Read more at webmd.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: benjaminfranklin; circadianrhythm; daylightlosingtime; daylightsavingstime; daylightsavingtime; dst; fallback; godsgravesglyphs; springforward
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To: alstewartfan

You do know it stays light later in the day during the summer months, naturally, even without DST? All DST means is that it’s still light out when I go to bed, to get up at 4:30.


61 posted on 11/06/2021 9:00:33 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: dynachrome
We have far more important problems to worry about.
62 posted on 11/06/2021 9:02:39 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Grampa Dave

Once I sprung forward instead of falling back. Was two hours late for Mass that time.


63 posted on 11/06/2021 9:07:45 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: Grampa Dave

Once I sprung forward instead of falling back. Was two hours late for Mass that time.


64 posted on 11/06/2021 9:07:52 AM PDT by mware (RETIRED)
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To: mowowie

The state of Maine is quite a bit east of Boston


65 posted on 11/06/2021 9:16:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: mowowie

The state of Maine is quite a bit east of Boston


66 posted on 11/06/2021 9:16:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: mowowie

The state of Maine is quite a bit east of Boston


67 posted on 11/06/2021 9:16:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: mowowie

The state of Maine is quite a bit east of Boston


68 posted on 11/06/2021 9:16:21 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: mowowie

The state of Maine is quite a bit east of Boston


69 posted on 11/06/2021 9:16:22 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Steely Tom

Maybe tell the parents the school can adjust the time to report and leave school? This is like the COVID vaccine…everybody has to participate for the few.


70 posted on 11/06/2021 9:21:22 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: mware

“Once I sprung forward instead of falling back. Was two hours late for Mass that time.”

About a decade ago 3 generations of the same regular Church attending family did the same thing.

They showed up as we locking up the church after a long coffee hour after the 10 am service. There was a big demand for real coffee after that service.

We told them that they could sit in their regular pew while we locked up the rest of the church.

They did and now all of us including them, laugh about their 2 hour 2 late for the church service..


71 posted on 11/06/2021 9:36:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Ramp it up!: Reclaim America Movement Party! (RAMP!!!!!)
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To: dynachrome

I don’t participate. I keep my same sleep schedule.


72 posted on 11/06/2021 9:39:32 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
Biden's handlers have convinced him to pay off "journalists" for favorable coverage, make greater efforts to destroy the supply chain while blaming the American people, laugh about gasoline shortages, carry out an illegal raid on Project Veritas, and push for a Vaccine Police State, but hey, it's time to turn the same wheels in the same ruts again. Irrespective of that, yes, Daylight Losing Time Sucks, always has, always will.
The other GGG topics added since last digest ping:

73 posted on 11/06/2021 10:51:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

bttt!


74 posted on 11/06/2021 10:53:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

thx BL

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4010303/posts?page=54#54


75 posted on 11/06/2021 10:54:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not being morning person, I’d be happy if we go on DST next Spring and never go off again.


76 posted on 11/06/2021 12:58:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: albie

LOL

I was stationed at Loring AFB a very long time ago.

Went to work in the dark and went home in the dark.

It was actually good for me because my eyes were (and are) sensitive to light.

Oh, how I miss the Autumn colours. I was just perusing the properties up in Kent and Caribou over the web, yesterday. Sigh....houses have shot up in cost!

It was always funny getting the children’s Halloween costumes 2 sizes larger for going over their snowsuits!


77 posted on 11/06/2021 1:13:51 PM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Biden isn’t actually involved in any of that. When the cameras are off, they strip him down and diaper him up and sit him in the playpen with some toys.

But!

Down with time zones!

Nationalize time!

Universal 12 noon! for everyone all the time.

Why should I have to worry about being on time? That’s oppression!


78 posted on 11/06/2021 1:54:27 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: mowowie

“I live outside of Boston.
I have zero problems with dark mornings...”

...I lived in West Newton in the 80’s. Worked on Copley Square. Only problem I had with Boston, was Boston


79 posted on 11/06/2021 2:39:41 PM PDT by albie
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To: Grimmy

Time zones are soooooo systemically racist, oppressive, colonizing, and white supremacist. /s


80 posted on 11/06/2021 10:25:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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