OT Turn the Clock Ahead, But Watch Your Heart | Arthritis Information

 

I saw an article in Readers Digest that daylight savings time which comes tonight, seems bad for the heart as there is an increase in heart attacks the week following.  New to me.

I hope you are all having a good week after the time change.Where I am the time doesn't change, not until I get back to the states, so I guess I'm good to go for another month or so.  I wonder if that's true if you cross the time zones or is it just the change in time.  LindyI don't know but would think there is some stress any time you change time,.Unfortunately the barking, pooping, yipping sack of annoyance next door adjusted quickly to daylight savings time and continues to wake up the neighborhood at 6:30AM. My kitty was wondering why we were not up on time.  He sat on the foot of the bed and yowled most pitifully, trying so hard to get his slaves up to get him breakfast.  It was surely enough to give one of us chest pains when, after we ignored him, be began chest compressions with his sharp little paws. I am soooo glad to live in a state that does not recognize DST. I never had any physical problems with the time change elsewhere, but found the necessity of changing the clocks bothersome on some deep psychological level.

I do not experience the same bothersome emotional/mental stress when driving from one time zone to another, but then I am certain that "sensitive" folks do.

I too have a friend, in upstate New York, that suffers physically when the time changes. I cannot even begin to image...

Ah, JasmieRain I have a whole pack of barking, yipping annoyances, but I live WAY out in the country and not one of them is allowed to bark at 5:50 without being immediately snatched up and placed in their sleeping quarters. There is little more annoying that barking dogs in the morning. I know: we have a neighbour who has hounds that bray at the moon, at the first light of daybreak, at dusk, and at everything in between; especially someone walking down the road, and that road is an exercise pathway for many of us in this neck of the bush! My sympathies!
We live in an urban area, with long narrow yards and houses.  The houses are tightly packed together.  For the most part it's great - neighborhood kids frequently use our yard and the next two yards over to play football, volleyball, tag, etc.  It makes for a long field!  We don't let the kids out at 5:50AM, however.
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