We all hate dealing with turning the forward or backward one hour during Daylight Savings (unless of course you live in Arizona where you don’t change clocks for Daylight Savings. But did you know it’s now considered racist too? At least CNN thinks it’s racist. If everything is racist to these batshit crazy left wing idiots, then nothing is racist.
So what’s next? Is snow racist because it’s white? Is rain racist because it’s wet?
Now, some sleep researchers worry about the potential effects that continuing to change standard time twice each year may have on sleep health inequities.
“Poor sleep is associated with a host of poor health outcomes, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, including of the breast and colon. Many of these health outcomes are more prevalent in the Black population,” said Chandra Jackson, a researcher and epidemiologist with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, who has been studying racial and ethnic disparities in sleep.
“Experimental as well as observational studies have linked sleep to these health outcomes. Therefore, sleep could be an important contributor,” she said. “Fortunately, sleep health is largely modifiable.”
As for the inequities seen in sleep health, it’s not that White adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States.