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Doctors want daylight saving time abolished. Here's why, and what you can do about it.
NOLA.com ^ | MAR 14, 2022 | Lisa Gutierrez

Posted on 03/14/2022 11:22:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The American Heart Association has issued its yearly reminder that incidents of heart disease and stroke go up at daylight saving time — a biological "clock shock" thus far unexplained.

Changing the clock changes up our body's production of hormones, including melatonin, the night-time hormone that affects sleep; cortisol, the stress hormone; and serotonin, the "feel-good" hormone that helps keep depression and anxiety at bay.

It's especially important over the next few days to try to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, even, as difficult as it is to hear, on weekends. Bhat says with consistency you should be able to get your body back on a regular sleep schedule in five to seven nights.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: aha; clockshock; cortisol; daylightlosingtime; daylightsavingtime; melatonin
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To: equaviator

When is solar noon?

At the equator, 0 degrees latitude, the sun angle at noon at the equinox is 90 — 0 = 90 degrees, or directly overhead.


21 posted on 03/15/2022 2:32:20 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: Clutch Martin

And the closer you live to the Equator the more even your day/night is.

I used to live on Guam which is 13 North and the sun rose and set at 6:30 and 1830 everyday throughout the year so it was dark at 1900.

In a perfect world I would have a trailer pads just south of the Mackinac bridge. And somewhere in the keys.


22 posted on 03/15/2022 2:38:42 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: BenLurkin

Keep it on standard year round, thank you.


23 posted on 03/15/2022 2:41:39 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Organic Panic
Same kinda sh** with metric.

Now everything is going to metric.

Walk a kilometer in my shoes just doesn't sound right.

Go back and hold to the Prime Meridian in Greenwich and stop this time change sh**.

24 posted on 03/15/2022 3:30:51 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Clutch Martin

A friend of mine lived in Alaska. Said he’d sit down with his coffee at work and by the time he finished his first cup of coffee, the sun and risen and set.


25 posted on 03/15/2022 3:33:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Wow! what horrible advice! DST took me months to adjust to. And then we change the time ...again.

I started the month before going to bed 15 minutes earlier or later depending on which change was coming. It is far more natural compensation to the biorhythm than forced sleep cycles.

Forcing the same time to bed/alarm for the week is highly stressful as one lays in bed trying to get to sleep or stay awake until bedtime. The spring/fall switch is a pain.


26 posted on 03/15/2022 3:36:30 AM PDT by EBH (Hold My Beer. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: BenLurkin

While I prefer year-round DST, I would be fine with year-round standard. Just quit changing it!!


27 posted on 03/15/2022 3:41:55 AM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: ApplegateRanch

Plants get more light with DST.


28 posted on 03/15/2022 4:01:46 AM PDT by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
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To: BenLurkin

Florida passed this.......it’s sitting in DC waiting now.


29 posted on 03/15/2022 4:07:04 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: BenLurkin
We ain't got no such thing here in the desert! Dang!

30 posted on 03/15/2022 4:32:41 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: BenLurkin

Because I have to, I just have to get out here and say that daylight savings time is the stupidest thing mankind is ever thought of. Except maybe sin. But I think daylight savings time is sin. If we ever abolish it, we should also pass a law instituting the death penalty for any politician that tries to bring it up again. Having been raised in Arizona and living there a majority of my adult life, I have seen the other side. No changing. It is as good as it sounds. Alas, I am in a land of bondage. And to think, Indiana existed without daylight savings time until 2006! How did it ever?

I have a strong opinion against all things that are nonsensical, moronic, and exert maximum government control. If you like the time change, you are woefully ignorant and probably grew up with it. Spending a lengthy time where there is no time change would cure you of that.


31 posted on 03/15/2022 4:39:59 AM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: BenLurkin

By the way, time change is a mark of antichrist:

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.


32 posted on 03/15/2022 4:45:32 AM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: BenLurkin
More daylight means happier people. Switch to daylight savings time permanently.
33 posted on 03/15/2022 4:47:10 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: BenLurkin

Keep Daylight Savings Time all year !


34 posted on 03/15/2022 4:48:23 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (If you put anything into my body WITHOUT my consent, IT IS RAPE.)
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To: Vision

You do realize the government doesn’t actually create another hour of sunlight, right?


35 posted on 03/15/2022 4:49:33 AM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: BenLurkin

The way it is currently set up, beginning DST on the second Sunday in March and ending it on the first Sunday in November, makes DST the norm rather than a deviation from normal. Where I live, it also puts the sunrise directly to the East on our section line roads right about 8:00 am, during the morning commute. This is known as a”Sunshine Slowdown “


36 posted on 03/15/2022 4:50:25 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Born in 1950
"Stupid tilted axis!"

Which is a major factor in making the planet habitable.

37 posted on 03/15/2022 4:54:41 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Organic Panic
"But what better way then the government to remind you they control every aspect of existence."

Each state can opt out of DST, if they choose. Some have.

38 posted on 03/15/2022 4:56:07 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Fresh Wind
"I don’t mind DST, but 8 months is too much. It used to be 6 months, which wasn’t as bad."

Yes, especially since the second Sunday in March is still officially WINTER!

39 posted on 03/15/2022 4:57:34 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: BenLurkin

How do those people who complain about the DST time change survive the time change when taking transcontinental or transoceanic flights?


40 posted on 03/15/2022 5:00:34 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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