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Daylight Saving Time (DST). I read a report today in The Times..it's pay-walled online so I can't post a link. Here's what it said:
"A paper in the journal Current Bilology found there wee 6% more road deaths in the US each year in the week after the clocks went forwrd but in other countries there was a minimal effect. Where most experts agree is that there are more cardiovascular deaths. In one study heart attacks went up by 20%. Sleep researchers say that there are subtle consequences to almost everything we do ,only some of which are measurable. Another study looked at judgements handed down by courts on the Monday after the return to daylight saving time. In a paper entitled "Sleepy Punishers Are Hard Punishers" criminals unfortunate enough to be sentenced that day could expect to be sentenced to 5% longer in prison. Stock markets were found to be less efficient because of impaired judgements by traders. DST was introduced,in part,for economic reasons: to save on artificial lighting.Our bodies,however, have evolved to follow natural light.Some chronobiolgists think that by forcing our bodies to be out of synch for six months every year we are exacerbating mental health problems not only in the days after the change but throughout the year"
"These days economic rationale for DST has largely gone.Research by the London School of Economics suggested that when you account for all the health and welfare impacts DST might be costing us more than £600 per person per year. This is one reason that in the past five years major sleep research societies in the US and Europe have called for its abolition. Our bodies have evolved to follow natural light"
Here's a UK article from last October when the clocks went back. https://patient.info/news-and-featu...why-the-clocks-changing-can-affect-our-health
What it's all about. https://www.shellenergy.co.uk/first...published the,natural daylight in the morning.
"A paper in the journal Current Bilology found there wee 6% more road deaths in the US each year in the week after the clocks went forwrd but in other countries there was a minimal effect. Where most experts agree is that there are more cardiovascular deaths. In one study heart attacks went up by 20%. Sleep researchers say that there are subtle consequences to almost everything we do ,only some of which are measurable. Another study looked at judgements handed down by courts on the Monday after the return to daylight saving time. In a paper entitled "Sleepy Punishers Are Hard Punishers" criminals unfortunate enough to be sentenced that day could expect to be sentenced to 5% longer in prison. Stock markets were found to be less efficient because of impaired judgements by traders. DST was introduced,in part,for economic reasons: to save on artificial lighting.Our bodies,however, have evolved to follow natural light.Some chronobiolgists think that by forcing our bodies to be out of synch for six months every year we are exacerbating mental health problems not only in the days after the change but throughout the year"
"These days economic rationale for DST has largely gone.Research by the London School of Economics suggested that when you account for all the health and welfare impacts DST might be costing us more than £600 per person per year. This is one reason that in the past five years major sleep research societies in the US and Europe have called for its abolition. Our bodies have evolved to follow natural light"
Here's a UK article from last October when the clocks went back. https://patient.info/news-and-featu...why-the-clocks-changing-can-affect-our-health
What it's all about. https://www.shellenergy.co.uk/first...published the,natural daylight in the morning.