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    How Our Health Falls Back When We Spring Forward

    As we approach Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 12, 2023  many of us easily recognize the annoyance of not only resetting all our clocks, but also of losing an hour of sleep as we spring ahead.  We trade this lost hour of sleep for an extra hour of daylight in the evening, but at what cost?  The National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 Sleep in America Poll revealed that 70% of Americans don’t think their sleep, routines or mood are disrupted by changing the clocks. In the same poll, while only 1 in 4 Americans want to keep the biannual clock change, greater than 50% felt the US should stay in…