Sunshine, exercise can help ease doldrums from return to standard time

Sunshine, exercise can help ease doldrums from return to standard time

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

A sleep expert in Cleveland says bright light and exercise can help avoid sluggishness with the end to daylight saving time on Sunday.

Michael Decker is an associate professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University and studies sleep disorders.

He compares the sluggish feeling of turning the clocks back and the days getting shorter to jet lag.

Decker suggests getting a morning dose of sunshine and using blue-light emitting bulbs where we spend daytime hours.

He also says daily exercise can help avoid darkness-induced doldrums in the winter.

Daylight saving time began Sunday at 2 a.m. The clocks went back one hour.

Daylight saving time will return at 2 a.m. local time March 9.