Posted on 11/26/2022 9:32:07 AM PST by thegagline
As the United States rolled back the clocks one hour this month to observe the end of Daylight Saving Time, many people got a bit more sleep than usual – but some not as much as others.
Growing evidence shows that lack of sleep and sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, remain more prevalent in Black, Asian, and Hispanic or Latino communities, and these inequities can have long-term detrimental implications for physical health, even raising the risk of certain chronic diseases.
*** Now, some sleep researchers worry about the potential effects that continuing to change standard time twice each year may have on sleep health inequities.
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As for the inequities seen in sleep health, it’s not that White adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States.
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Yet the racial and ethnic disparities in sleep duration appear to be getting worse across the United States, *** [A] study, published in April in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, found that among more than 400,000 adults in the US, between 2004 and 2018, the prevalence of short and long sleep duration was persistently higher among those who were Black and Hispanic or Latino. Short sleep is less than seven hours in a day, and long sleep is more than nine hours.
*** “Among those are housing conditions, noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution, stress from different sources – including perceived racial discrimination – and jobs or working conditions,” he said, adding that the convergence of all those factors may explain why getting the recommended amount of sleep “may be less common among Black adults than among White adults.”
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Ya think not? CNN did.
They can bite me. On my lily-white backside.
Try chronic insomnia from a combo of dialysis and the medications required to manage kidney failure. There’s no dealing with that outside of Zolpidem, which isn’t a solution either. Six years of that made it hard to come off it, and I was awake for nine straight days before I started sleeping without drugs, and even now I have a hard time.
Covid sneaked around and looked for persons of color to infect disproportionately.
Why wouldn’t Daylight Savings Time use its secret powers to hurt them more?
Farmers in a survey once said the extra hour of sunlight dried out their crops. Funny.
A genuine complaint was dairy cows were upset by the time change each year.
Well you can make it up- and the criminal liberal media does exactly that every day.
Can’t make this up.
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Yes they can. And they do all the time.
Does the sun rise and set at different times for different colors of people?
I want my C-PAC free!
A racists find racism in the rising and setting of the Sun.
Eye roll. I’m surprised it took only one writer at CNN to come up with this fantasy.
C-Pap was meant
Oh pleeeeze...just quit hanging out on street corners at 3 in the morning.
It seems getting a good, deep sleep is just like burning a cross on a black family’s lawn.
I can only pledge to rectify this inadvertent injustice as best I can by fighting for racial equality in my long, luxurious dreams.
I’m just a white guy who tries to get to sleep before 10PM every night. Switching back from Daylight Savings Time doesn’t have too much of an impact on me. I do like the fact that it’s a little lighter in the morning when I get up at 5am in the winter time.
Voting is racist....math is racist....science is racist...time is racist.
Now sleep is racist. Wow, maybe they should just run an article telling us what isn’t racist. It would be a very very short article.
There was an organization that gave out free CPAP machines. It was used equipment, so recipients were taking their chances. They had to suspend activities during COVID>
Hmm....no chance CNN would put that detail into the story.
There’s a simple solution: only change the time for white people. Leave all other races on a standard time.
“then maybe living is racist too”, ONLY IF YOUR WHITE!
Hogwash! The time change doesn’t affect one race of people differently from others. Some people have a harder time adjusting than others but that is the way it has always been. The older I get, the more it seems to affect me. I’m glad I’m retired now because I’d never make it to work on time. I have a hard time falling asleep and staying asleep and find I’m sleeping my best at about the time I used to have to be at the office.
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