Posted on 10/29/2010 7:47:42 PM PDT by fightinJAG
Not putting the clocks back this weekend but still putting them forward in the spring would be a simple and effective way to vastly improve our health and well-being, says an expert in the online British Medical Journal.
Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Policy Studies Institute, argues that the effect of doing so would be to increase the number of 'accessible' daylight hours and thus encourage more outdoor activity throughout the year.
A major public health problem contributing to the incidence of chronic illnesses in the UK is caused by lack of exercise, writes Hillman. Adults are recommended to engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate or vigorous activity daily and children at least one hour. However, surveys have revealed a trend towards declining fitness and it has been predicted that over half the population will be clinically obese by 2050.
Although most people are aware of the benefits of taking up more physical activity -- a lowered risk of coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and some cancers -- this routine features in few people's everyday lives, and the school curriculum allocates insufficient time for this, he adds.
Research shows that people feel happier, more energetic and have lower sickness rates in the longer and brighter days of summer, whereas their mood tends to decline during the shorter and duller days of winter.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
fall back is next week...but i agree- i hate fall back....
Great, get up in the dark go home in the dark...
You’ll be late all week if you set them back this weekend.
Gee. Maybe if I cut a string at one end, I can tie it back so it’s longer.
My preferred waking hour is 10am. I’d just as soon they rolled it back two hours and left it there.
Because daylight hours are always going to be longer in July than in December. It's a physics thing.
Congress just messes around with the clock and pretends they have an effect that is desired.
/johnny
Arizona and Indiana don’t do Daylight Savings Time. Haven’t noticed any specific health benefits so far.
I thought it was Next weekend
Keep doing that and in a few years time you'll be living in the dark.
It is, first Sunday in November.
Spring forward is worse, IMO.
Just sayin....
in london/europe it is this weekend
in london/europe it is this weekend
Well, considering that the clock turn back doesn’t usually happen until next week, if I do it this week I should expect my health to improve?
Two items should be moved to the top of the legislative agenda next year:
1) Do away with the ban on incandescent light bulbs
2) Do away with Daylight Savings Time
Can’t be this weekend.
I’m not ready.
Is it the 7th?
I wish we could have more daylight in the evenings.
I don't use alarms to wake up. For years, so moving the hands on the one analog clock I have in the house isn't going to change much in the real world.
/johnny
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