QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Daylight Saving Time sheds light on lack of sleep’s disproportionate impact in communities of color”

2022-11-30
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CNN health reporter Jacqueline Howard reported Friday that the real problem with Daylight Savings Time is that it’s racist.

“Many social and environmental determinants of health – including living conditions or work schedules that don’t support sleep – may emerge, at least in part, from historical and persistent forms of structural racism,” Howard wrote, noting that some clinical research has found that sleep loss — such as that caused by Daylight Savings Time shifts — disproportionately affects black and Hispanic Americans.
Daylight savings time joins other unlikely loci of systemic racism, including swimming and being on time.

Source: WashingtonGuardian

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