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End daylight savings time, and the detrimental effects thereof.

Please end the harmful and detrimental practice of Daylight-Savings-Time. As it stands now, Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and America Samoa do not participate in the practice of daylight savings time.


Daylight-Savings-Time has deleterious effects:
Increased Heart Attacks. (1)

Increased Car Accidents. (2)

Increase in Workplace Injuries. (3)

Upwards of $430,000,000.00 in economic cost upon businesses for productivity loss. (4)

Detrimental to Hormone Regulation. (5)

Vast increase in suicide. (6)



These effects can last for months, due to the fact that the internal clocks of the human body can never fully adjust(7) to even a simple hour outside of solar mean/standard time. Therefore, it is time to end a practice which serves a net negative benefit to the American people.





References:

1.(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189320/)

2.(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457503000150)

3.(http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/94/5/1305/)

4.(https://sleepbetter.org/Lost-Hour-Economic-Index/)

5.(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07420528.2013.844162)

6.(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1479-8425.2007.00331.x/abstract)

7.(https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2007/cell-networking-keeps-brains-master-clock-ticking.shtml)