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Is daylight saving time bad for your health? A neurologist explains.

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Researchers are discovering that "springing ahead" each March is connected with serious negative health effects.

About a third of Americans say they don't look forward to these twice-yearly time changes.

Study shows evidence linking the annual transition to daylight saving time to increased strokes, heart attacks and teen sleep deprivation.

Study found western edge residents had higher rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer.

In 2007 , Congress amended the Uniform Time Act to expand daylight saving time from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November .

The law allows states and territories to opt out of daylight saving, but many states are considering falling back and springing ahead.

The strong case for permanent standard time is strong, says John Defterios : Standard time most closely approximates natural light with sun directly overhead at or near noon .

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