This Sunday, November 6, in the United States, the time change will be officially made, so summer time will end to give way to winter time, something that many dislike because now the days will be shorter.
Precisely this is the main argument why many prefer summer time over winter time, since at dawn earlier it seems that we rest less and above all, because we are forced to return home earlier and put aside the activities that we usually do outdoors, on many occasions for safety and because we do not have the same spirit to do them.
However, science indicates that winter time is better than summer time for a couple of reasons.
The first of them, as explained by María Ángeles Rol de Lama, professor of Physiology at the University of Murcia and director of the Chronobiology Laboratory, for this science, and he winter time turns out to be more beneficial for the human being since it is in accordance with the cycles of light and darkness.
“Under a strictly chronological point of view, winter time is more convenient . We receive more light during school and work hours, which benefits concentration, and there is more darkness at night, which helps us fall asleep”, says physiologist Emilio J. Sánchez Barceló.
In addition, it has also been proven that when light and leisure increase, so do harmful behaviors such as alcohol or tobacco consumption.
Similarly, moving the clock back one hour this weekend will give us one more hour to sleep, which gives us a beneficial effect for that day and subsequent ones, bringing a series of benefits to physical and mental level, since it promotes a more stable biological rhythm than that of summer, which improves intellectual performance, at work and in class, and helps reduce the appearance of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, insomnia and depression .
Regarding why people prefer summer time to winter time, it is probably due to the terminology, since many Many associate the former with rest and even vacations and good weather. Also because it is normal that after the working day, you want sunlight to continue doing things, which can be done even if there is none.
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