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"Fall Back" is Good For Your Heart

By , About.com GuideOctober 31, 2008

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Swedish researchers found that the end of Daylight Saving Time, when we adjust the clocks back one hour reduced heart attacks on the following Monday. The researchers feel that the extra hour of sleep may have contributed to the increase in health following the time change. Apparently, "spring forward" has the opposite effect.

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November 2, 2008 at 2:50 am
(1) Jorge says:

You need to go over the rules of good writing. I was into the second paragraph before I got to the point of your piece…(see below).

“[...]The phrase “Spring forward, fall back” helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of standard time (“spring forward”). We “fall back” at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November by setting our clock back one hour and thus returning to standard time.”

Very aggravating.

The change to Daylight Saving Tim

November 2, 2008 at 6:10 pm
(2) Matt Rosenberg says:

Thanks for your comments Jorge! I constructed the article in that format because the vast majority of my visitors are interested in knowing about the recent change to Daylight Saving Time.

November 2, 2008 at 6:17 pm
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November 5, 2008 at 2:31 am
(4) Don Hirschberg says:

The data about a time change of one hour vs heart attack rate is unconvincing.

Whether a person will have a heart attack is determined at the instant of conception (i.e. the DNA he gets) and how he has lived his life – a cumulative matter of many years. If someone has a heart attack because he gets one hour less sleep once a year that only says he was so delicaltely balanced on the edge of diaster that a mere brush of a butterfly’s wings sends him over the edge. Balderdash.

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