Or, not dangerous. Depending on the time of the year.

Swedish researchers have found that there are fewer heart attacks on the Monday after people set their clocks back an hour in the fall. Conversely, there are more heart attacks in the spring when people set their clocks forward.

It may have to do with the extra hour of sleep. It may have to do with the magnetic distortions created by millions of clocks being set forward at the same time. I think Halliburton is involved for sure.

In related news, Mondays are the worst days for Heart Attacks. Meaning, more people have heart attacks on Monday than any other day. But, if hospitals actually staff up for it, maybe Monday is actually the best day to have a heart attack. Plus, then it won’t ruin your weekend.

And now for the back story about the state fair. A few years ago several of the bloggers here (in fact all of them) volunteered for MN Governor Tim Pawlenty’s reelection campaign. We worked a few shifts at the MN State Fair. (That’s where we saw Penn, mentioned in my post about Teddy Roosevelt here.)

Working the Fair, you get the chance to meet a lot of people. Many of them are nuts. Especially the early morning fair crowd. But one lady took the cake. (There was no actual cake, that is just an expression. There were funnel cakes. And shredded turkey sandwiches. And Pronto Pups. And all-you-can-drink milk. And those chocolate chip cookies. Great, now I’m hungry.)

This particular woman said she would vote for the governor only if he promised to abolish Daylight Saving Time. I’ve heard of single-issue voters, but this was a first. The best part was her reason. She and her husband (I can only assume they met at a medical institution) “didn’t know when to eat – or wake up.” Oh. OK. We’ll pass that on to the big man for ya. Or not.

But she was just prescient. She knew that someday the ugly truth about “spring forward” would come out some day.

I’ve always been an advocate of just always falling back. Sure eventually we’d all be waking up in the middle of the night, but so what? We’ve got electric lighting. And everything would be back to normal in about 24 years. No, it’s not the best plan, but wouldn’t it feel good to get that extra hour of sleep without knowing that the cruel hand of time was going to come for sweet revenge in the spring? I think so.

And it would prevent heart attacks.

Source: Fox News – Sweden. Actually just the regular Fox News.