Daylight Savings Time

Here in Chicagoland we moved our clocks back last night but our bodies… well, they aren’t fooled. I just said to Kris, “It’s 5:30 and it feels like 8pm.”

Today’s the day most of us in the United States switch back from daylight saving time to standard time — giving ourselves a 25-hour day and commanding the sun to rise and set an hour earlier than it did yesterday.

At least that’s how it looks on the clocks in our homes. The clocks in our bodies know better — and will be telling us we are hungry for dinner and ready for bed early tonight. Those effects are benign compared to what happens when we lose an hour of sleep to start daylight saving time again in the spring: heart attacks increase for several days after that, studies show.

Consider these twice-yearly time changes a reminder: Your body is keeping time, all the time….

You will feel better, sleep better and maybe even avoid some diseases if you live in sync with your body clock and keep your clock in sync with the sun….