'White' light suppresses the body's production of melatonin

http://medicalxpress.com ^ | 09-12-2011 | Provided by University of Haifa

[Red Badger]

Ping!........

[rawhide]

Hello friend:

[immadashell]

I smell algore!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

"Just as there are regulations and standards for 'classic' pollutants, there should also be regulations and rules for pollution stemming from artificial light at night," says Prof. Abraham Haim

I have a better idea, Dr. Haim - How about you buzz off and just let people use whatever light bulbs they jolly well feel like using?

[Designer]

Given that our own government is forcing us to change our lighting methods, we could hypothesize that they are trying to cause premature death by pushing LED lighting on us.

[Cicero]

Some degree of regulation used to be a good thing. But not with the Commie nuts who are running things these days.

But people need to know about this. And since it also affects dogs and other animals, probably something needs to be done about it.

I find blue-white LED light intolerable. Worse than the early compact flourescents. But I think eventually they can produce combinations of LED bulbs that produce a decent color, and presumably don’t cause this problem.

[Brookhaven]

This isn’t the bulb the govt is pushing.

The government is pushing compact flourescents—CFLs. I actually wonder if this story wasn’t planted by CFL manufacturers, as LED bulbs are their main competition.

[dragonblustar]

If I were into conspiracies, perhaps the supports of these light bulbs want the masses to become sleep deprived and easily agitated.

[mo]

“there should also be regulations and rules...”

Why am I not surprised?

[Albion Wilde]

Does anyone know if the OttLite® falls into this category? They are promoted in craft stores for good color vision, and I have been considering buying a couple of them.

[RhoTheta]

I can see, from an industrial workplace standpoint, how the wavelength of the installed lighting in an office might be a consideration. We used to use tungsten bulbs, but they were almost entirely replaced by blue-white fluorescents in the office. Then there were "daylight" and "GroLux" variants. Halogen bulbs came along for reading lamps.

The point of the article is to consider the effects of different light sources on the biological clock. Sounds like a long-overdue study. Office workers, especially shift workers, are impacted daily by the light source choices of the architects.

[janereinheimer]

later

[CodeToad]

So, what did humans do before the invention of the light bulb? Was there no Melatonin?

This sound like another Luddite hackjob on technology.

[Amberdawn]

Bring on the insomnia.

[hoosierham]

Before lightbulbs humans used sunlight when available and firelight at other times ,and slept(or whatever) when it was dark.

I think the professor is saying yellowish light is more natural and doesn’t adversely affect the body.

Incandesent bulbs are probably better for your eyes and over all health than any of the strobing,flickering technological marvels.

[BitWielder1]

Sounds like some alarmist is pushing for legislation before we even fully understand the problem, or what the solution should be.
There is too much of that nowadays.
Can we install lights in the legislative chambers to make them less hyperactive?

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[Mercat]

Well, that would fix social security.

[wardaddy]

then why are northern Amerindians rather dark?