Saturday, May 17, 2008

Nighttime light linked with breast Cancer

I had a doctor also tell me it is important for kids to sleep in darkness. He said that kids that slept in darkness without the nightlights had fewer colds, ect. I guess your body needs darkness to get down to all levels of sleep so the body can heal. He said that if your child has to fall a sleep with a night light to turn it off after the child has fallen a sleep and to try and not get in the habit of night time light as early as possible. I read the following in Women's Health magazine today.

Black Out!!

Nighttime light is associated with breast cancer, reports a study in Chronobiology Researchers overlaid satelite images of Israel with a map of breast cancer cases. Cancer rates were 73 percent higher in communities with the most artificial nighttime light, usually from streetlights, businesses and outdoor home lighting. Exposure disrupts the body's nocturnal production of melatonin, a hormone that can suppress tumor growth, which may explain the link, says study co-author Richard Stevens, Ph.D. Beef up bedroom windows with dark shades and nix surplus illumination or install outdoor motion sensors.

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