A growing number of sleep experts say the act of moving our clocks forward in the spring is ruining our health.
Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Sleep, But Better newsletter series. Our seven-part guide has helpful hints to achieve better sleep. The end of Daylight Saving Time is upon us again, an autumn tradition when the United States, Europe, most of Canada and a number of other countries move their clocks backwards an hour in a sort of Groundhog Day trust fall. We’ll move them forward next spring when governments put daylight saving back in place.
” The proposal has been endorsed by more than 20 medical, scientific, and civic organizations, including the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the National Parent Teacher Association, the National Safety Council, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms and the World Sleep Society. What’s the harm? When our internal clocks are offset from the solar day-night cycle by even one hour we develop what sleep experts call “social jet lag.
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