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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: Smittie

Yes, anyone who works outside is glad for DST.


41 posted on 03/10/2017 1:47:29 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: BenLurkin

Nah...

I’m turning my clocks BACK another hour this weekend.

I’m retired.

Late?
Late for what?


42 posted on 03/10/2017 1:48:07 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Fresh Wind

A friend of mine used to work days. Then a month later - nights. Month after that it was swing.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Every 30 days.

It was brutal. By the time he got used to one routine, it was time to change.


43 posted on 03/10/2017 1:48:17 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t participate in Daylight savings. I keep the same schedule year round and never change my clocks.


44 posted on 03/10/2017 1:49:50 PM PST by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: BenLurkin

I, for one, am much more likely to get outside and exercise or do yard work during DST. I have to believe that is helping me (and others) more than the sleep disruption is harmful.

If DST is killing you, then people should never be allowed to change job shifts or job schedules, due to the detrimental health effects. Think about how just starting back to school after summer break might be disrupting sleep schedules for billions of teens!! Maybe we should do away with school...


45 posted on 03/10/2017 1:50:24 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: Lazamataz
Ergo, every month, we should add an hour to the day. In two years we'd lap the clock.

A little like the way Ramadan laps the sun every two years, because scientifically superior medieval Islam couldn't figure out what the scientifically inferior Bronze Age Judaism did, that if you're going to have lunar months and solar years you have to add a month every two years. But then, the Jews probably got that clever idea because of their white privilege.

46 posted on 03/10/2017 1:51:42 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

I notice no difference in me when the time changes. And I have always enjoyed having my “extra” sunlight in the evening instead of before I get up.


47 posted on 03/10/2017 1:51:51 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: chajin

two years=36 years :-)


48 posted on 03/10/2017 1:53:48 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: G Larry
I’m retired. Late? Late for what?

That's pretty much my attitude also. I have little use for a clock and no use for a calendar.
49 posted on 03/10/2017 1:54:10 PM PST by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: thulldud

“Failed” is your opinion

Year-round experiment (1974-1975)[edit]

During the 1973 oil embargo by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), in an effort to conserve fuel, Congress enacted a trial period of year-round DST (P.L. 93-182), beginning January 6, 1974, and ending April 27, 1975.[8] The trial was hotly debated. Those in favor pointed to increased daylight hours in the winter evening: more time for recreation, reduced lighting and heating demands, reduced crime, and reduced automobile accidents. The opposition was concerned about children leaving for school in the dark. The act was amended in October 1974 (P.L. 93-434) to return to standard time for the period beginning October 27, 1974, and ending February 23, 1975, when DST resumed. When the trial ended in 1975, the country returned to observing summer DST (with the aforementioned exceptions).[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States#Year-round_experiment_.281974-1975.29

I do remember this. I remember going to school in the dark. I didn’t like it. But too bad. Kids today still go to school in the dark. So things are just as bad.


50 posted on 03/10/2017 1:56:03 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Daveinyork
I’m sure you’ve heard this one before, but only the government would think that you can cut six inches off the top of a pole, and attach it to the bottom of the pole and result in a longer pole.
I remember during the so-called energy "crisis" in 1974, they came up with the hairbrained idea of starting DST in February, thinking everyone's would somehow reduce their utilities consumption. All it did was force us young skulls full of mush to go to school in complete darkness. How we didn't experience a spike in pedestrian and school bus accidents, at least in the town I grew up in is a miracle.
51 posted on 03/10/2017 1:57:34 PM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an Islamophobe like it's a bad thing)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I knew some Air Traffic Controllers in the service overseas. They had them working 6 on, 12 off. They would work 4 different shifts over a 3 day period. Their goal of more alert, rested controllers produced zombies. Always tired, and their digestive systems all out of whack.


52 posted on 03/10/2017 2:00:22 PM PST by Typelouder
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t know why they don’t just add another hour of sunlight in the evening AND the morning during the winter time. That’s when we need it the most!


53 posted on 03/10/2017 2:02:20 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: BenLurkin

The human body is not at all adapted to this twice-a-year changing of the clocks. It does not occur in nature at all. Everyone should just admit that it sounded good at the time, but is a stupid idea. There is no perfect solution for what isn’t even a problem. Pick one, preferably Summer Time, and keep it all year around.


54 posted on 03/10/2017 2:03:03 PM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: capt. norm

Could be worse. You could work at a cuckoo clock museum, and have to change all the clocks twice a year.


55 posted on 03/10/2017 2:03:46 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: I want the USA back
The human body is not at all adapted to this twice-a-year changing of the clocks

The human body is not adapted to living by a clock. A natural life is waking up when you've had enough sleep, regardless of what time it is. An unnatural life is waking up when an alarm clock tells you to.

56 posted on 03/10/2017 2:11:39 PM PST by Wissa (Cats don't make long-term plans.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

He was joking.


57 posted on 03/10/2017 2:15:38 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Tell me exactly how cutting one foot off the end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end gets you more blanket?


58 posted on 03/10/2017 2:18:12 PM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: BenLurkin
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.

Gain an hour of sunlight? I feel like I'm losing an hour of sunlight because now when I get up, it's going to be pitch dark.

59 posted on 03/10/2017 2:29:37 PM PST by Rufii
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To: Typelouder

Shift work is terrible for you.


60 posted on 03/10/2017 2:41:59 PM PST by EEGator
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