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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

A study from the Kehoe Institute of Geriatrics states that no one gets off this planet alive.

8^)

5.56mm


61 posted on 03/10/2017 2:44:18 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: BenLurkin

Does everyone who hates DST live in the South. I know in Chicago I appreciate it. If we stayed on regular time all year, the sun would rise at 4:30 in the summer and set at 7:30, if we went to DST in winter, the sun would rise at 8:30 and set at 5:00. Does changing the clock on a Saturday really bother people that much?


62 posted on 03/10/2017 3:05:50 PM PST by sharkhawk (GO CUBS GO)
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To: Impala64ssa

I remember that, too.


63 posted on 03/10/2017 3:09:30 PM PST by Daveinyork
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To: Mr. K

Split the difference. Thirty minutes. Stick to it all year.

The fur babies can’t tell time. Come daybreak, it’s FEED ME!


64 posted on 03/10/2017 3:11:19 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: BenLurkin
Nobody needs "studies" to know that having your sleep cycle disputed twice a year is bad for you.It's almost as if the clowns in charge want the public to be permanently groggy.

I,like many other Freepers,have taken some long plane rides in my life.Mine include many in an east-west direction,that is,crossing time zones.I think the most time zones I crossed in any 24 hour period was 12 (Boston to Hong Kong,non-stop).

Anyone who's ever crossed more than a few time zones in a short period know "jet lag".My fairly signifigant experience with jet lag is that for a few days after taking the flight you feel bad...even terrible...but then you feel absolutely normal.

The concept of a one hour change in clocks...twice a year...being dangerous in any way to anyone but the most "unhealthy" is,IMO,beyond silly.

65 posted on 03/10/2017 3:11:47 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: sharkhawk

The daylight hours (in relation to a clock) naturally change as the seasons change.

It’s not the simple act of resetting a clock that bothers people “that much”. It’s having to make an abrupt adjustment (for a change that is occurring anyway) rather than a gradual one.


66 posted on 03/10/2017 3:13:31 PM PST by Sooner Gal
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To: BenLurkin

DST is kept to remind everyone that an all powerful government controls everything in your life. Including time.

Personally, I’m self employed and don’t care about it. I also hate the entire concept of DST. It is stupid, always has been stupid, and always will be stupid.


67 posted on 03/10/2017 3:35:48 PM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: M Kehoe

Well there was that one Russian astronaut...but his capsule will be back to visit in about 100 years or so.


68 posted on 03/10/2017 4:48:38 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

Just move the clocks ahead 1/2 hr and call it good. Gees how hard is this. It’s stupid to move the clocks twice a year.


69 posted on 03/10/2017 4:54:28 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: BenLurkin

I hate it. I call it Government Time.


70 posted on 03/10/2017 5:01:34 PM PST by TigersEye (We all have a stake in MAGA! We all need to contribute our efforts.)
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To: BenLurkin

I we want the light in the evening. I want them to keep the extra hour of light in the evening permanently.


71 posted on 03/10/2017 6:44:47 PM PST by Bellflower (Dems = Mat 6:23 ....If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!)
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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.

Which is exacerbated by wanting to have the windows open to get a cool nighttime air through the room after being cooped up all winter.

72 posted on 03/10/2017 7:45:10 PM PST by pa_dweller (President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
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To: jy8z

I actually stay pretty busy, but I couldn’t pass on the chance for a punchline.


73 posted on 03/11/2017 10:51:51 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Smittie
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.

Indeed,which likely means that you live in the northern US. It get dark at 4pm here in Jan. versus 8pm in July.

74 posted on 03/11/2017 12:53:50 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
“Failed” is your opinion

Not an unreasonable opinion. It was the infuriated moms that shrieked about their kiddies waiting for school buses in the dark. Nobody wanted to buck that tsunami of outrage, or risk a recurrence. Feminism was on its upswing then.

I was not adversely affected by the year-round DST, being myself neither a mom nor a schoolkid. I just thought was a dumb idea.

75 posted on 03/12/2017 7:07:07 PM PDT by thulldud
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