Time change: Daylight saving time can make you sick
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|At the end of October, the clocks will go back to normal time. But this disruption to our circadian rhythm is unhealthy. Not only in the short term, but also in the long term, as a new study now shows.
Soon we'll finally get back that hour stolen in March. On the last weekend in October, daylight saving time will be switched back to standard time. This means sleeping an hour longer, getting up in the morning with more sunlight, but losing some of the light in the evening. Even if the change in October is much more relaxed than the one in March, not everyone likes changing the clocks, and for years the discussion about it has contributed to people sleeping worse simply because they get annoyed about the interference with their biorhythm. But now a study from the USA is adding fuel to the debate. It shows that changing the clocks not only leads to acute light confusion, tiredness and a few days of stress because it's even harder to get the children out of bed or into bed, changing the clocks also causes long-term health risks, writes a team from the University of California in the journal PNAS . It promotes obesity and strokes.
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