After being able to get an extra hour of sleep when Daylight Saving Time (DST) ended just three and a half months ago, many Pennsylvanians are disappointed to learn that DST is returning in 2025.
This Sunday, March 9th, people will lose an hour of sleep as they “spring forward” their clocks to prepare for spring. People sometimes prepare for DST by going to sleep earlier days before the time change. Although few Americans are affected by the time change twice a year, for others losing that hour can have a significant impact on their health. In America, many people do not get the recommended seven hours of sleep a night, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, here are seven things learned about how changing to daylight saving time affects lives.
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- Making the shift can increase your health risks such as heart attacks, strokes, mood disturbances, hospital admissions, stress, increase in car crashes involving fatalities.
- DST was enacted to conserve energy—but today it may do the opposite
- More after-work sunshine doesn’t necessarily mean a healthier you
- Less sleep means more health risks
- For certain groups, these time changes have a greater negative health impact
- DST could become permanent
- There are ways to manage the change
In most U.S. cities, daylight saving time begins this Sunday at 2 a.m. In seven months, clocks will “fall back” on November 2.
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