Guest guest Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Does anyone have any information about the health effects of compact fluourescent lights? Are they better than older fluourescent lights? I've avoided them; now I hear that there is a move in California to ban incandescent lights. Is there a group that talks about effects of light on health? Linda Linda Bumpas Light Beam Expressions Web Design Services to Help Your Light Shine Linda ______________________________\ ____ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search./shortcuts/#loc_weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Halogen lights are known to cause migraines. The newer flourescents are better than the older ones. New bulbs are better than older nearly worn out bulbs. Flouresents have been used to treat S.A.D. Seasonal Affective Disorder. 30 minutes a day. Better to walk for 30 minutes a day in the sunlight. Kill 2 birds with same stone. Avoid possible exposure and get exercise. Jenny Kernan --- Linda Bumpas <lindabumpas wrote: > Does anyone have any information about the health > effects of compact fluourescent lights? Are they > better than older fluourescent lights? I've avoided > them; now I hear that there is a move in California > to ban incandescent lights. Is there a group that > talks about effects of light on health? > > Linda > > Linda Bumpas > Light Beam Expressions > Web Design Services to Help Your Light Shine > Linda > > > > > > > > ______________________________\ ____ > Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast > with the Search weather shortcut. > http://tools.search./shortcuts/#loc_weather > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 ---Seasonal affected disorder We need light and many people are affected in winter by the very short days and lack of sunshine. Light is extremely important for the needs of man. Edgar Cayce recommended 2 hrs a day but not at the height of the day. Sunlight metabolizes vitamin D which is needed for the absorption of Calcium, with osteoporosis now affecting one in three women over 50 and one in twelve men, anything we can do to absorb calcium must be looked at. According to one reputable light therapist who listed ten main benefits from sunlight which include. 1 Production of vitamin D, 2.Lowers blood pressure. 3.Increases heart pumping efficiency. 4.Improves ECG readings. 5.Reduces Cholesterol and hypertension 6.Assists weight loss. 7.Effective with Psoriasis. 8.Increases the level of sex hormones. 9.Helps alleviate Asthma and other lung disorders. 10.Helps improve mood. As with most things one can have too much .Too much sunlight will age the skin and give an increased risk of skin cancer, which is frequently caused by too much UV radiation. An interesting point with sunlight is the fact that you can get burnt through cloud cover or in shallow water. Never expose babies to direct sun between 11am- 2pm in summer. As a precaution if any mole changes colour, shape, size or becomes itchy, or bleeds seek medical advice straight the way, melanoma if caught early is well treatable, caught late it can be much more problematic. Alternatively to sunlight one can use a light box but this will have to be the right kind of light and the right intensity and with this one can then expose oneself or others to the right duration of time. With the now recognised problem of season affected disorder -the cayce statement is well justified. Insufficient light will cause all manor of problems things like depression, Fatigue and drowsiness will be more seen in winter as the dark days come. Apparently a thirty-minute exposure to sunlight will produce enough vitamin D for the entire day. People in winter are now using light boxes, which should be of at least 10,000-lux full spectrum type lights and flicker free. Also used is UV light and both of these types of light are to be used in the early morning to keep us in balance. Treatment with these methods has been effective in about 85% of cases. Our pineal gland responds to sunlight and a sunny day produces about 100,000 lux, the pineal gland produces melatonin, which lowers heart rate and prepares the body for sleep. However you have to get sufficient daylight to produce Melatonin.PMS has now been linked to low melatonin .In fact one has to apparently protect our melatonin as things like Glutamate (often used in food additives) caffiene, alcohol, tobacco, chocolate, non steroid anti inflammatory, beta blockers, prozac, and valium deplete it. Melatonin is a very important chemical and acts as an anti oxidant and free radical scavenger and these things are linked to aging. Curiously St. johns wort used for depression is a melatonin stimulator. Tests have also been done with florescent lighting at a school in Florida, the tests clearly showed evidence for increased Hyperactivity, Irritability, Depression and Fatigue.Surprisingly the lighting also affected blind people as well. The clear alternative for florescent lights are the full spectrum type lights where they very nearly replicate sunlight, again tests have shown improved Health and performance, a decrease in headaches, Depression and fatigue. The nice thing about light therapy is that the side effects are experienced by only a small percentage of people, and typically are temporary. They can include a jittery feeling, Home Page Edgar Cayce Dr. Raymond Rife Treatment/ Research Info Related Sites Karma/Hypnosis/ Regression Therapy Add Your Name To Our Healing List /Contact Author Search this site from FreeFind Spiritual/ Colour/Pyramid Energy Healing excitability, mild nausea, and mild burning of the eyes. These typically are go after a few days and/or by temporarily adjusting the distance one sits from their light. An interesting measurement was taken of the amount of lux which was present in an typical office with florescent lighting – the meter used read about 170 lux, which is highly problematic when an average sunny day is between 5000 ? lux but can be up to 100000lux. Some people ask can just replacing my ordinary bulbs with full spectrum ones cure me. Interestingly for the majority of people afflicted with seasonal affective disorder Medical research indicates the therapeutic effect comes from the high intensity of light. This high intensity, generally ten to twenty times brighter than regular room light, stimulates the brain to produce the chemical changes responsible for the antidepressant effect. Also, most incandescents are bright enough to be harmful. See the research here with all sorts of people http://www.phothera.com/ptref.html where they are Treating people with light therapy on people who have alcohol problems, Eating disorders, winter depression, sleep disorders, obesity, Bulimia, anorexic nervosa, general food intake and sad, Alzheimer's, Behavioral problems with elderly people, Suicidal tendencies are also explored and make interesting reading. The symptoms of SAD usually recur regularly each winter, starting between September and November and continuing until March or April. Sleeping problems - Usually desire to oversleep and difficulty staying awake but, in some cases, disturbed sleep and early morning wakening Lethargy- Feelings of fatigue and inability to carry out normal routine Overeating – A real craving for carbohydrates and sweet foods, usually resulting in weight gain Depression- Feelings of misery, guilt and loss of self-esteem, sometimes hopelessness and despair, sometimes apathy and loss of feelings Anxiety Tension and inability to tolerate stress Mood changes - In some sufferers, extremes of mood and short periods of hypomania (overactivity) in spring and autumn. Treatment Some light boxes emit higher intensity of light, up to 10,000 lux, which can cut treatment time down to half an hour a day. According to some researchers the light has to be full spectrum fluorescent lighting. Although there is evidence it seems for using high intensity florescent lighting. This could be a crucial factor and caution is recommended here as fluorescent lighting has shown to be problematic in a lot of situations. Light boxes are not available on the NHS and have to be bought from specialist retailers; and start at less than £100. Apparently you can try before you buy; several companies offer a home trial or hire scheme. Interesting feedback A doctor had a patient with severe SAD who was from a psychiatric hospital interested. The patient in question was a woman who was about 35. She was an emergency admission because she had tried to commit suicide. He hadn't realized until then that SAD could be so life threatening. He found out that she suffered SAD every winter, but was able to hang on until her kids' February holiday from school when the family took a vacation in sunny Florida, which immediately lifted her spirits. Apparently this year the February' vacation didn't come until the first week of March. She couldn't hold out any longer. Another patient aged Male mid-20s was admitted to this same hospital year after year, generally for several months at a time so severe was his depression. He always came in about the same time of year, usually late September, then mysteriously got well and was fine to go in about Feb/March .He tells us that at other times of the year, he was just fine. Light therapy was used. Staff noticed that he became more sociable. Later he paid better attention to personal hygiene, caring to change his clothes, to bathe himself and to shave. There is a further report of music then coming from his room indicating a better mood. In another study some people can become more vulnerable to feelings of aloneness and other sad thoughts because of the decreasing hours of daylight and that it is the shorter day's length which sets the stage for depression. Scientists. In a now classical research paper authored by Norman Rosenthal and his colleagues found they could predict how many of the people they studied would develop SAD symptoms on the basis of how brief the daylight hours were. As daylight began noticeably decreasing in September, some people were affected. By the time the days bracketing the winter solstice came, almost everyone in the study group was affected. Then, as the season moved away from the solstice toward spring with lengthening daylight hours, the number of affected people began to decline. By the end of May, almost everyone was back to their old selves, some unfortunately even switching into what psychiatrists call mania. To make sure that this association between change in mood and amount of light was more than just mere coincidence, the next step was to supply light to see if it they could reverse the SAD mood. They used two different kinds of light; just to make sure the extra attention paid to the SAD patients wasn't what helped resolve the depression. The dimmer, yellow light they used had no effect. However, the brighter light with a frequency spectrum more or less simulating the frequencies in sunlight, produced a marked change in mood in most (but not all) the patients who received that treatment. Their mood lightened, as it were, with the administration of light. Researchers at medical centers and clinics in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asian and Australia have had much success with light therapy in many thousands of patients with clear histories of SAD for at least several years. Marked improvement is usually observed within four or five days, if not sooner and symptoms often return in about the same amount of time when the lights are withdrawn. Some people take longer than the usual few days to respond to light. It is therefore worth persevering for a week or two before concluding that light therapy doesn't work for you. Most users maintain a consistent daily schedule of light exposures beginning -as needed - in fall or winter and usually continuing until spring, when outdoor light becomes sufficient to maintain good mood and high energy. Some people can skip treatments for one to three days, occasionally longer, without ill effect, but most start to slump quickly when treatment is interrupted. The first demonstration of clinical effect was in the early 1980's. Soon after, several research centers initiated clinical trials, and more than 2,500 SAD patients have been studied to date. The method has also been used in private practices, in most cases by psychiatrists, but also by family doctors, psychologists, and psychiatric social workers and nurses. The number of clinicians offering light therapy is increasing dramatically year by year, though compared to drug treatments or psychotherapy, the method is not yet in widespread use. See another interesting article with ABC news - http://archive.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhea d_13.html In , Linda Bumpas <lindabumpas wrote: > > Does anyone have any information about the health effects of compact fluourescent lights? Are they better than older fluourescent lights? I've avoided them; now I hear that there is a move in California to ban incandescent lights. Is there a group that talks about effects of light on health? > > Linda > > Linda Bumpas > Light Beam Expressions > Web Design Services to Help Your Light Shine > Linda > > > > > > > > ___________________ _______________ > Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast > with the Search weather shortcut. > http://tools.search./shortcuts/#loc_weather > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 See these books for more info: 1)Health and Light: The Effects of Natural and Artificial Light on Man and Other Living Things (Paperback) by John N. Ott John Ott did the first studies about full spectrum lighting. His book has info on effects of fluourescent lights. He was retired and living on Siesta Key in Florida if he is still alive. Last I heard, he was in his 90's. I use Ott lights on my desk. and 2) Light: Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves NOW by Jacob Liberman Namaste, David In , " pjb12345uk " <pho wrote: > > ---Seasonal affected disorder > > > We need light and many people are affected in winter by the very > short days and lack of sunshine. > > > Light is extremely important for the needs of man. Edgar Cayce > recommended 2 hrs a day but not at the height of the day. Sunlight > metabolizes vitamin D which is needed for the absorption of Calcium, > with osteoporosis now affecting one in three women over 50 and one > in twelve men, anything we can do to absorb calcium must be looked > at. According to one reputable light therapist who listed ten main > benefits from sunlight which include. > > > 1 Production of vitamin D, > 2.Lowers blood pressure. > 3.Increases heart pumping efficiency. > 4.Improves ECG readings. > 5.Reduces Cholesterol and hypertension > 6.Assists weight loss. > 7.Effective with Psoriasis. > 8.Increases the level of sex hormones. > 9.Helps alleviate Asthma and other lung disorders. > 10.Helps improve mood. > > > As with most things one can have too much .Too much sunlight will > age the skin and give an increased risk of skin cancer, which is > frequently caused by too much UV radiation. An interesting point > with sunlight is the fact that you can get burnt through cloud cover > or in shallow water. Never expose babies to direct sun between 11am- > 2pm in summer. As a precaution if any mole changes colour, shape, > size or becomes itchy, or bleeds seek medical advice straight the > way, melanoma if caught early is well treatable, caught late it can > be much more problematic. Alternatively to sunlight one can use a > light box but this will have to be the right kind of light and the > right intensity and with this one can then expose oneself or others > to the right duration of time. > With the now recognised problem of season affected disorder -the > cayce statement is well justified. Insufficient light will cause all > manor of problems things like depression, Fatigue and drowsiness > will be more seen in winter as the dark days come. Apparently a > thirty-minute exposure to sunlight will produce enough vitamin D for > the entire day. People in winter are now using light boxes, which > should be of at least 10,000-lux full spectrum type lights and > flicker free. Also used is UV light and both of these types of light > are to be used in the early morning to keep us in balance. Treatment > with these methods has been effective in about 85% of cases. Our > pineal gland responds to sunlight and a sunny day produces about > 100,000 lux, the pineal gland produces melatonin, which lowers heart > rate and prepares the body for sleep. However > > you have to get sufficient daylight to produce Melatonin.PMS has now > been linked to low melatonin .In fact one has to apparently protect > our melatonin as things like Glutamate (often used in food > additives) caffiene, alcohol, tobacco, chocolate, non steroid anti > inflammatory, beta blockers, prozac, and valium deplete it. > > > Melatonin is a very important chemical and acts as an anti oxidant > and free radical scavenger and these things are linked to aging. > Curiously St. johns wort used for depression is a melatonin > stimulator. > Tests have also been done with florescent lighting at a school in > Florida, the tests clearly showed evidence for increased > Hyperactivity, Irritability, Depression and Fatigue.Surprisingly the > lighting also affected blind people as well. The clear alternative > for florescent lights are the full spectrum type lights where they > very nearly replicate sunlight, again tests have shown improved > Health and performance, a decrease in headaches, Depression and > fatigue. > > > The nice thing about light therapy is that the side effects are > experienced by only a small percentage of people, and typically are > temporary. They can include a jittery feeling, > > Home Page > > Edgar Cayce > > Dr. Raymond Rife > > Treatment/ > Research Info > > Related Sites > > Karma/Hypnosis/ > Regression Therapy > > Add Your Name > To Our Healing List /Contact Author > > Search this site from FreeFind > > Spiritual/ > Colour/Pyramid Energy Healing > > excitability, mild nausea, and mild burning of the eyes. These > typically are go after a few days and/or by temporarily adjusting > the distance one sits from their light. > An interesting measurement was taken of the amount of lux which was > present in an typical office with florescent lighting – the meter > used read about 170 lux, which is highly problematic when an average > sunny day is between 5000 ? lux but can be up to 100000lux. > Some people ask can just replacing my ordinary bulbs with full > spectrum ones cure me. > > Interestingly for the majority of people afflicted with seasonal > affective disorder Medical research indicates the therapeutic effect > comes from the high intensity of light. This high intensity, > generally ten to twenty times brighter than regular room light, > stimulates the brain to produce the chemical changes responsible for > the antidepressant effect. Also, most incandescents are bright > enough to be harmful. > See the research here with all sorts of people > > > http://www.phothera.com/ptref.html > where they are > Treating people with light therapy on people who have alcohol > problems, Eating disorders, winter depression, sleep disorders, > obesity, Bulimia, anorexic nervosa, general food intake and sad, > Alzheimer's, Behavioral problems with elderly people, Suicidal > tendencies are also explored and make interesting reading. > > > The symptoms of SAD usually recur regularly each winter, starting > between September and November and continuing until March or April. > Sleeping problems - Usually desire to oversleep and difficulty > staying awake but, in some cases, disturbed sleep and early morning > wakening > > Lethargy- Feelings of fatigue and inability to carry out normal > routine > > Overeating – A real craving for carbohydrates and sweet foods, > usually resulting in weight gain > > Depression- Feelings of misery, guilt and loss of self-esteem, > sometimes hopelessness and despair, sometimes apathy and loss of > feelings > Anxiety Tension and inability to tolerate stress > > Mood changes - In some sufferers, extremes of mood and short periods > of hypomania (overactivity) in spring and autumn. > > Treatment > > > Some light boxes emit higher intensity of light, up to 10,000 lux, > which can cut treatment time down to half an hour a day. According > to some researchers the light has to be full spectrum fluorescent > lighting. Although there is evidence it seems for using high > intensity florescent lighting. This could be a crucial factor and > caution is recommended here as fluorescent lighting has shown to be > problematic in a lot of situations. > Light boxes are not available on the NHS and have to be bought from > specialist retailers; and start at less than £100. > Apparently you can try before you buy; several companies offer a > home trial or hire scheme. > > > Interesting feedback > > > A doctor had a patient with severe SAD who was from a psychiatric > hospital interested. The patient in question was a woman who was > about 35. She was an emergency admission because she had tried to > commit suicide. He hadn't realized until then that SAD could be so > life threatening. He found out that she suffered SAD every winter, > but was able to hang on until her kids' February holiday from school > when the family took a vacation in sunny Florida, which immediately > lifted her spirits. Apparently this year the February' vacation > didn't come until the first week of March. She couldn't hold out any > longer. > > Another patient aged Male mid-20s was admitted to this same hospital > year after year, generally for several months at a time so severe > was his depression. He always came in about the same time of year, > usually late September, then mysteriously got well and was fine to > go in about Feb/March .He tells us that at other times of the year, > he was just fine. Light therapy was used. Staff noticed that he > became more sociable. Later he paid better attention to personal > hygiene, caring to change his clothes, to bathe himself and to > shave. There is a further report of music then coming from his room > indicating a better mood. > > > In another study some people can become more vulnerable to feelings > of aloneness and other sad thoughts because of the decreasing hours > of daylight and that it is the shorter day's length which sets the > stage for depression. Scientists. In a now classical research paper > authored by Norman Rosenthal and his colleagues found they could > predict how many of the people they studied would develop SAD > symptoms on the basis of how brief the daylight hours were. As > daylight began noticeably decreasing in September, some people were > affected. By the time the days bracketing the winter solstice came, > almost everyone in the study group was affected. Then, as the season > moved away from the solstice toward spring with lengthening daylight > hours, the number of affected people began to decline. By the end of > May, almost everyone was back to their old selves, some > unfortunately even switching into what psychiatrists call mania. > To make sure that this association between change in mood and amount > of light was more than just mere coincidence, the next step was to > supply light to see if it they could reverse the SAD mood. They used > two different kinds of light; just to make sure the extra attention > paid to the SAD patients wasn't what helped resolve the depression. > The dimmer, yellow light they used had no effect. However, the > brighter light with a frequency spectrum more or less simulating the > frequencies in sunlight, produced a marked change in mood in most > (but not all) the patients who received that treatment. Their mood > lightened, as it were, with the administration of light. > > Researchers at medical centers and clinics in the U.S., Canada, > Europe, Asian and Australia have had much success with light therapy > in many thousands of patients > > with clear histories of SAD for at least several years. Marked > improvement is usually observed within four or five days, if not > sooner and symptoms often return in about the same amount of time > when the lights are withdrawn. Some people take longer than the > usual few days to respond to light. It is therefore worth > persevering for a week or two before concluding that light therapy > doesn't work for you. Most users maintain a consistent daily > schedule of light exposures beginning -as needed - in fall or winter > and usually continuing until spring, when outdoor light becomes > sufficient to maintain good mood and high energy. Some people can > skip treatments for one to three days, occasionally longer, without > ill effect, but most start to slump quickly when treatment is > interrupted. > > The first demonstration of clinical effect was in the early 1980's. > Soon after, several research centers initiated clinical trials, and > more than 2,500 SAD patients have been studied to date. The method > has also been used in private practices, in most cases by > psychiatrists, but also by family doctors, psychologists, and > psychiatric social workers and nurses. The number of clinicians > offering light therapy is increasing dramatically year by year, > though compared to drug treatments or psychotherapy, the method is > not yet in widespread use. > > > > See another interesting article with ABC news - > http://archive.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhea > d_13.html > > In , Linda Bumpas > <lindabumpas@> wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any information about the health effects of > compact fluourescent lights? Are they better than older fluourescent > lights? I've avoided them; now I hear that there is a move in > California to ban incandescent lights. Is there a group that talks > about effects of light on health? > > > > Linda > > > > Linda Bumpas > > Light Beam Expressions > > Web Design Services to Help Your Light Shine > > Linda@ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________ > _______________ > > Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast > > with the Search weather shortcut. > > http://tools.search./shortcuts/#loc_weather > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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