Is Daylight Saving Time Bad for Your Health? – TIME Healthland

Is Daylight Saving Time Bad for Your Health? – TIME Healthland:

An Australian study study published in 2008 in Sleep and Biological Rhythms found that men were more likely to commit suicide during the first few weeks of Daylight Saving Time (DST) than at any other time during the year.

Another 2008 study, published by Swedish researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the number of serious heart attacks jumps 6% to 10% on the first three workdays after DST begins.

In other words, people who are already vulnerable to certain health problems may experience more severe effects of their body-clock disruption.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/03/12/is-daylight-saving-time-bad-for-your-health/#ixzz1GXAw9A74