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Permanent daylight savings time could harm your health

The US Congress pushed to make daylight-saving time permanent, but the bill is stalled in the House. Experts believe daylight saving could negatively impact health by hampering sleep patterns. Also, studies show that when our internal clocks are offset from the solar day-night cycle by even one hour, we can develop "social jet lag." It can cause diseases like diabetes, depression, heart disease & strokes.

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