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The senator Guido Girardi, president of the Future Challenges Commission, together with the neuroscientist John ewer, who worked on the team that won the Nobel Prize for research on the biological clock, pointed out that the current time system in Chile generates serious problems to the health of the population and it damages the learning of children and adolescents.
Consequently, they asked the Government to respect the scientific evidence and support the bill that is in the Future Committee of the Senate and that establishes a single schedule and which is the one we are going to enter this Saturday (winter) and which is the closest to the one corresponding to Chile due to its time zone.
John Ewer acknowledged that “many adults prefer to have light in the afternoon, but for human health and the performance of children and adolescents it is better to have light in the morning and that is why winter time is better for them and with that we should stay the whole year.
The neuroscientist explained that “the metabolism of living beings activated by sunlight, and if we wake up earlier, a chronic sleep deficit occurs that affects health (diabetes, hypertension, immune system) and increases the risk of accident ”.
And he explained “with the summer time we have the Brazilian time zone and we are two hours out of date with respect to the one that corresponds to us. What a disaster. With the winter, we are approaching Peru’s time zone, which is the one we should have “.
Ewer said that “the B side of this schedule is that it gets dark earlier and that is not liked by adults – children do not answer surveys – and neither does retail because people prefer to buy in daylight.”
For his part, Senator Girardi pointed out that “all the scientific evidence indicates that sleep debt is related to problems such as obesity, Alzheimer’s, hypertension, diabetes, heart attack, stress, accidents and drug use … because it creates a context that favors that ”.
And he asked himself: “Are we going to continue with a vision of a myopic State, away from science and making decisions with economic criteria, but condemning the population to a serious risk of damage to health? There is a denialist view regarding the scientific evidence that indicates that winter time is the only time we must have ”.
Girardi recalled that “in Congress there is a bill that, through the Future Commission, was presented by the Department of Neuroscience of the University of Valparaíso, led by the National Prize for Science, Ramón Latorre and John Ewer. We are asking the Minister of Energy -Juan Carlos Jobet to support it and never return to summer time, which irreparably damages health and increases the risks of getting worse and dying from Covid ”.
This Saturday night, when the clocks strike 24:00 in Continental Chile (from Arica and Parinacota to Aysén) you should go back one hour to be 23:00, corresponding to the UTC-4 time zone. In Magallanes the time will remain unchanged, remaining at UTC-3, while in Insular Chile at 22:00 hours the clocks will be turned back one hour, remaining at 21:00 hours, in UTC-6.
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