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Daylight saving time may be killing you
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 3/10/17 12:11 PM | John Siciliano

Posted on 03/10/2017 1:09:19 PM PST by BenLurkin

Duke Energy, one of the largest electric utilities in the country, included an article this week that took aim at the clock-changing law, which was updated just over a decade ago by a 2005 energy bill. It pointed out a number of adverse health effects that are a side effect of using 0.5 percent less energy per day as a result of gaining an hour of sunlight.

Studies published over the last decade on the effects of daylight saving time have shown it interferes with natural sleep patterns, which people never truly recover from.

... Even worse, medical studies showed that daylight saving time also can lead to death. "Other studies show that the number of heart attacks spikes in the days following the March time change, and after the November time change, the frequency of heart attacks decreases," the article reads.

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A University of Alabama study done in 2012 showed a 10 percent jump in heart attacks on the Monday and Tuesday following the time change in March.

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


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: daylightsavingstime; daylightsavingtime; dst; dsthealth; health
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To: BenLurkin

An hour you don’t have to use electricity for artificial light every day adds up, no wonder a energy company wants to put an end to that. Frankly, I don’t like it getting dark at 5 p.m, and light at 4 a.m. so I like DST.


21 posted on 03/10/2017 1:27:32 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: BenLurkin

We don’t do it out here in AZ. In the middle of the summer the last thing we want to do is “save” daylight.

I do wish they would shorten it to the 3 summer months. I don’t like watching NFL games, drinkin beer at 10am.


22 posted on 03/10/2017 1:28:37 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: BenLurkin

I used to work at a place where a number of people worked rotating shifts. They complained about it, but not a single one died from it.

I have had a few 12-hour jetlags, and guess what? After a few days, you readjust and you go on with your life.

This is horse****.


23 posted on 03/10/2017 1:29:37 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: BenLurkin

Same thing happens every year. I do just like they say, at 2:00 AM Sunday morning I turn the clocks back one hour....BUT then 2:00 AM comes up again and I have to start all over. Come church time, I have to abandon the project and reset to the time my WWV set automatic clock shows.


24 posted on 03/10/2017 1:30:51 PM PST by capt. norm (Two can live as cheaply as one...but for only half as long)
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To: Ed Condon
It’s that extra hour of sunlight that is causing global warming.

LOL! Don't say that too loud, or it will be picked up by MSNBC and run as a serious news story bashing the evil Trump for lengthening the day just to harm women and minorities. :)

25 posted on 03/10/2017 1:32:06 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Ed Condon

They could just cut 15 minutes off each hour, just think of all the extra hours in the day we would have! Better yet, make each hour 30 minutes.


26 posted on 03/10/2017 1:33:26 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Proud member of Trump's army of online trolls.)
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To: BenLurkin

While I don’t need a study to tell me this, this has been true in my life. I absolutely hate daylight savings time. I call it fake time. I have had problems sleeping my entire life and when I lose that hour it gets worse and I never recover until we return to normal time. I have tried to convince my wife to move with me to a state or county or area where daylight savings time is not observed. But no dice. Oh well.


27 posted on 03/10/2017 1:33:27 PM PST by sfl109415
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To: BenLurkin
And after the November time change, the frequency of heart attacks decreases

Ergo, every month, we should add an hour to the day.

In two years we'd lap the clock.

28 posted on 03/10/2017 1:33:46 PM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: BenLurkin

In the summer it’s the crazy chortling birds starting up at 4:30 followed by the beginning of daylight at 5 that make the DST so wearying.


29 posted on 03/10/2017 1:35:55 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Ed Condon
It’s that extra hour of sunlight that is causing global warming.

That must be it! You're a genius Ed! No go apply for a government grant.

30 posted on 03/10/2017 1:36:41 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Lazamataz
And after the November time change, the frequency of heart attacks decreases Ergo, every month, we should add an hour to the day. In two years we'd lap the clock.

...and nobody would ever die of a heart attack again.

31 posted on 03/10/2017 1:37:11 PM PST by Wissa (Cats don't make long-term plans.)
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To: ssaftler

Some people don’t suffer ill health, they just lose their ability to understand fractions8>)


32 posted on 03/10/2017 1:38:40 PM PST by RipSawyer (At the end of the day...the sun goes down.)
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To: Mr. K

Actually it is very beautiful!! I love to get up at that time. Quiet, some few birds have already begun their paen to the day, little rustlings near or on the ground, the air crisp and clean. And the beautiful light growing without stirring a soul or a cloud, just a consistent expansion. Lovely.!


33 posted on 03/10/2017 1:41:12 PM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: lurk
In the summer it’s the crazy chortling birds starting up at 4:30 followed by the beginning of daylight at 5 that make the DST so wearying.

You'd rather get rid of DST and have the birds start up at 3:30?

34 posted on 03/10/2017 1:42:27 PM PST by Wissa (Cats don't make long-term plans.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Simple solution would be to have DST all year long.

Tried and failed already. 1974.

35 posted on 03/10/2017 1:42:40 PM PST by thulldud
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To: BenLurkin
Daylight Saving Time is not bad for your health. Otherwise people would be dropping like flies for getting up a hour earlier everytime they moved to an earlier time zone or because they had to get up an hour earlier for some reason. Not getting to bed at an appropriate time Sunday evening is probably the cause of any health problems Monday morning.

DST moves the clock so there is more daylight in the evening hours during the summer, when people spend more time outdoors.

36 posted on 03/10/2017 1:43:37 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, cause no one ever gets up an hour early except for daylight savings time. Fall is even worse, when everyone sleeps in an extra hour. It’s a wonder anyone survives.


37 posted on 03/10/2017 1:44:21 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: Mr. K
Getting up with the sunrise at 4AM would be interesting in the summer.

You could move to Kanazawa, on the central east coast of Japan. It's a lovely city with a huge garden park, whose seasons are much like southern Wisconsin. Because Japan doesn't follow DST, the sun rises there in the summer right after 4 AM to days that are hot and humid, and in the winter sets around 4 PM for nights that are cold and blustery.

38 posted on 03/10/2017 1:44:35 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin
Sue Benjamin Franklin. Daylight saving time was his idea.

When he was in Paris he liked to stay late at parties in the evening, and didn't like it that it got light so early in the morning when he wanted to sleep.

39 posted on 03/10/2017 1:44:41 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: thulldud

We had it during WWII it was called “War Time.”


40 posted on 03/10/2017 1:46:26 PM PST by dfwgator
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