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Daylight Saving Time can be hazardous for your health. Studies have found there's a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries on the first Monday of Daylight Saving.

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Many Americans will lose an hour of sleep on March 14, the first day of daylight-saving time—making it harder to wake up, causing difficulty in staying alert and increasing the chance of sleepy-driving car crashes. However, this is not the only time when the amount of sleep should be of concern because many aspects of health are related to sleep. Read on for more information.

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Not getting enough sleep does more damage than just leaving you with puffy eyes. It can cause fat to accumulate around your organs – more dangerous, researchers say, than those pesky love handles and jiggly thighs.

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SLU sleep expert offers tips for worn-out workers.

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Professor of Mathematics Mark Holmes and his graduate student Lisa Rogers are using math to develop a new computer model that can be easily manipulated by other scientists and doctors to predict how different environmental, medical, or physical changes to a person’s body will affect their sleep. Their model will also provide clues to the most basic dynamics of the sleep-wake cycle.