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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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August 24, 1990
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The following article was one that we came across at a lecture
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a few years ago. It first appear in The Los Angeles Times paper in
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February 17, 1980. R.B.
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ROLE OF LIGHT IN HEALTH
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`Super Nutrient' Lacking in
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Most Artificially Illuminated Rooms, Scientists Warn.
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Tinted and dark glasses can harm your health
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and may depress your immune system and endocrine glands!
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A nutrient that travels at a speed of 186,000 miles a second
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from a source 93 million miles away rates with food, water and air
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as part of the life-support system on earth.
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It is light from the sun.
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But light also comes from manmade sources, and therein lies a
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number of problems.
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The wrong kind of artificial light can make students irritable
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in school, reduce production among factory workers and make office
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workers sluggish.
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Not enough of the right kind of light can interfere with
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calcium absorption in the elderly and contribute to brittle bones,
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scientific studies show.
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On the positive side, light can be used to control jaundice
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(using so-called "billy lights", UV) in the newborn. It also can
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boost beef production; cattle that spend "longer days" under correct
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artificial light are 10% to 15% heavier, with no increase in food
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consumption.
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The light that some scientists consider a "super nutrient" is
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full-spectrum light, which comes from the sun or from fluorescent
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bulbs of special design that simulate sunlight. (Actually, despite
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the designation of these artificial lights, they did not match the
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full spectrum of sunlight.)
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Incandescent bulbs and most fluorescent bulbs do not produce
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full-spectrum light. This may be contributing to "mal-illumination,"
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say photo biologists, the scientists who specialize in the study of
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light's effects on living creatures.
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The science of photobiology is a recent one. Some photo
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biologists say doctors showed little interest in the subject until
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about five years ago. The American Society of Photo biology was
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founded only eight years ago.
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One way of rating light is by a color rendering index, the CRI.
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of 100. Full-spectrum fluorescent, 91; standard cool white
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fluorescent, 68; other fluorescent, 56.
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Under natural light or an artificial source that duplicates
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natural light, there is less human fatigue and stress and better
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visual acuity and production, studies have shown.
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Consider:
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-Plants grown under artificial lighting that comes close to
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duplicating full-spectrum sunlight can be made to flower on preset
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schedules by controlling day length.
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-In dairies, changing the length of light exposure from natural
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9 to 12 hours of light to 16 hours of fluorescent light of the full-
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spectrum type increased the milk yield by 10% to 15%.
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-Full-spectrum light is used to treat psoriasis, neonatal
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jaundice and herpes simplex infections.
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Rays from sunlight stimulate the pineal gland, a pea-sized
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organ in the head. This gland secretes melatonin, a hormone that
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seems to control many bodily functions. When infected into animals,
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melatonin induces sleep, inhibits ovulation and modifies the
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secretion of other hormones. Experts say that both plastic and
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regular eyeglasses and contact lenses block some of the ultraviolet
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rays that travel through the eye to the pineal gland.
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-At the Center for Improvement of Undergraduate Education,
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Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., students working in a class with
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fluorescent light closely approximating sunlight experienced a
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significant increase in visual acuity and a reduction in overall
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fatigue, compared to performance under regular fluorescent lights.
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John Ott, of Sarasota, Fla., a pioneer in light and health
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research, for the last 50 year has been warning against unhealthy
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effects of some kinds of light. Earlier, he was rebuffed, but now
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there is basic research that supports his ideas.
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Ott said he first noticed strange happenings in living things
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under certain light sources when he was working on time-lapse
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photography for Walt Disney movies.
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At the Bronx Zoo curators credit full-spectrum lighting with
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helping the tufted puffin, a shy sea bird, survive in captivity.
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Under the influence of "indoor sunshine," the puffins, for the first
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time, laid eggs that hatched.
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Strange things happened in Burnett Park Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y.,
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when sunlight-simulating lights were installed in an effort to stop
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vandalism. "The zoo became a veritable maternity ward," said
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director Charles T. Clift.
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"The cougars fell in love all over again and produced their
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fourth litter, we collected five goose eggs, at least 8 lambs were
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born, and the deer population increased by 20. Big Lizzie gave birth
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to a bear cub. The wallaby produced a new mini-kangaroo and the
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chimpanzee got pregnant."
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Phillip Hughes Ph.D., a scientist at Duro-Test Corp., North
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Bergen, N.H., said the Syracuse zoo's experience is just one example
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of the effects of natural-like light. Hughes is a vice president at
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Duro-Test, the firm that makes the most widely used full-spectrum
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fluorescent light, Vita-Lite.
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A specialist in neurological sciences, physiology and
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psychology, Hughes said. "Light is definitely a nutrient. It is
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essential to life and the whole endocrine system. Light has a role
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in triggering hormones.
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`Vitamin D is synthesized by ultraviolet in the skin. Vitamin
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D receptors help proper bone development and prevent development of
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rickets. Vitamin D facilitates the absorption of calcium.
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"Under light not closely approximating the sun, one study found
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calcium absorption dropped off in the elderly in the indoors in
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winter. But those under full-spectrum lighting had an increase in
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calcium absorption."
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In an upcoming book on holistic medicine, produced with funding
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from the National Institute of Mental Health, Hughes says:
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"Along with food, air, and water, sunlight is a most important
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survival factor in human life. Solar radiation activates other
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important biochemical events in our bodies involved in endocrine
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control, timing of our biological clocks, entrainment of 24-hour
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circadian rhythms, immunologic responsiveness, sexual growth and
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development, regulation of stress and fatigue, control of viral and
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cold infections, and dampening of functional disorders of the
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nervous system."
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He said the last two or three generations are the first to have
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spent three-fourths of their lives under artificial light. "We do
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not fully know the effect," he said.
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The Russians know more than Americans, perhaps, about the
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health effects of various kinds of light.
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Under light that is full-spectrum, Russian scientific reports
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show, production goes up and absenteeism goes down. This kind of
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light is mandated in many Russian workplaces.
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In schools, it has been demonstrated in Russia, full-spectrum
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lighting or ultraviolet treatment helps academic performance,
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improves student behavior and lessens fatigue.
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The Russians practice light therapy on coal miners who spend
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their working day out of natural light. Once a day coal miners must
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disrobe and spend half an hour in natural light or under full-
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spectrum artificial lighting.
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Hughes said the Russians have reported that this regiment is
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useful in both preventing and treating black lung disease. "The
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Russian researchers and health specialists have documented that the
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body's tolerance to environmental pollutants is increased by full-
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spectrum light, which also increased the effectiveness of
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immunization procedures," he said.
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West Germany's government restricts the use of cool white
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limited-spectrum fluorescent bulbs in public buildings because of
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their distorted spectral output.
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Ott, the pioneer health and light expert, maintains that sodium
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vapor lights, now offered as the latest technological advancement,
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do not reproduce the full spectrum of natural light.
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"The Fort Worth, Texas school district was one of the first to
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install sodium lighting in perhaps a dozen schools. It was one of
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the first to take them all out because complaints of both teachers
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and pupils of headaches, eyestrain and other health-related
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problems," he said.
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Ott contends that another major problem with all gaseous-
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discharge types of lights, including the mercury vapor and limited-
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spectrum fluorescent light, is that they emit radiation that grossly
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weakens muscle strength, affecting both academic achievement and
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behavior.
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A recent Consumers' Research magazine report on the risk to
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health from some fluorescent lamps suggested new probes by industry
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and the government.
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"There are good reasons, in our opinion, for government
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agencies and industry engineers to initiate promptly laboratory
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research programs on the effects of the spectral characteristics of
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artificial lighting on animals used in research and on human
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beings," it said.
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A psychiatrist who uses light in his therapy is Dr. H.L.
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Newbold of New York.
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"Before we began civilizing ourselves into semi-invalidism, we
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received an abundance of full-spectrum light: the kind that nature
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provides for us in the form of sunlight," says Newbold, author of
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"Mega-nutrients for Your Nerves."
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"What we now get is a mere fraction of the spectrum."
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"Once we are all ensconced behind our office desks or in our
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living room armchairs, science efficiently furnishes us with
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electric light.
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"If your company is really up to date you are probably working
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under fluorescent light, which may be an industrial engineer's dream
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of perfection - but happens to be the most nutrient-deficient of all
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lighting devices.
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"Even ordinary light bulbs are preferable to the total
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artificiality of the fluorescent environment."
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Newbold uses full-spectrum lighting in his office and has a
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special plastic in place of glass in his office windows to allow the
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ultraviolet from natural daylight to enter.
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To let the ultraviolet from full-spectrum lighting into the
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pathway to the brain, he suggests special lenses for spectacles and
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contracts for his patients.
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In the treatment of yellow jaundice, newborns used to get
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complete blood transfers. That was until a nurse noticed that a
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jaundiced infant seemed to be getting better on his own.
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The infant's crib was near an open window, and natural light
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was streaming in. The babies near the wall and out of reach of
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sunbeams were not doing as well.
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So light treatment was tried on babies with jaundice, and it
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worked. Now, about 25,000 newborns a year get the treatment.
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In fact, three famous babies received the treatment some years
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ago at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
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Three of the Kienast quints had jaundice, and they were cured
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by full-spectrum lighting. When they went home, it was to a nursery
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with full-spectrum light.
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HOW LIGHTING AND GLASSES CAN AFFECT YOUR MOODS
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The type of lighting un your house and office can affect your
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mood and may even help prevent or cure arthritis and other diseases,
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an expert has revealed.
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Even the color tint of the lenses you wear in your glasses or
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sunglasses can rob you of energy by preventing certain light
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wavelengths from entering your system, according to John Ott,
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director of the Environmental Health and Light Research Institute in
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Sarasota, Fla.
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"Light is well documented that light entering the eyes
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influences the master glands, the pituitary and pineal glands, which
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control the entire endocrine system."
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Different kinds of lighting conditions include natural,
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unfiltered sunlight, incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light,
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sunlight filtered through different kinds of glass, and sunlight
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reflected of different color interiors.
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In experiments on first grade students in Sarasota, researchers
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have found that children who work in a classroom with cool white
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fluorescent lighting are more hyperactive than students in another
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classroom with full-spectrum fluorescent tubes which duplicate
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natural sunlight but with shields to stop harmful radiation.
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"Under the standard, cool white fluorescent lighting, some
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first graders showed nervous fatigue, irritability, lapses of
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attention and hyperactive behavior," says Ott, author of Health And
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Light (Pocket Books, $1.95).
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"Within a week after the new lights were installed, the
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children settled down and paid more attention to their teachers."
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Dr. Ott says that different kinds of lights can also affect the
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course of disease.
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Experiments with mice have shown that mice who live under pink
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fluorescent light develop cancer more quickly than mice who live
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under white fluorescent light and natural light.
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Tinted sunglasses can also affect you physically and
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psychologically because they block out certain colors of the light
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spectrum that you need for health, Ott claims.
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He says he persuaded a man with prostate cancer to stop wearing
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pink tinted eyeglasses.
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"For three years he has worn new full-spectrum clear
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ultraviolet transmitting spectacles and, apparently, his problem has
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disappeared."
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SPECIAL NOTES
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Our friends, Dean and Mary Hardy, authors of "Pyramid Energy
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Explained", told us that they see more people that have been getting
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mercury poisoning in their system.
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Through investigating where these people were living and their
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personal lifestyles, they found that in most cases, these
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individuals were being exposed to mercury vapor lighting systems.
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These people were found to be sleeping under street lights
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which were of the mercury vapor type. After a certain amount of
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time, the frequency at which mercury resonates would be absorbed
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into the body.
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Some of them blocked out the light which shined into their room
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which eventually corrected the problem.
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One observation I have made in my own workplace. A mercury
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vapor lighting system was installed on the outside of our building a
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few years ago.
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Since that time we seem to have a problem making grass grow in
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the area. We must now frequently replace the dead grass with new.
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Additionally, we seem to have a problem with insects.
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Of course, sodium lighting puts out a yellow light which drives
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insects away, so that might account for the insect problem.
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Additionally, we refer you to Tesla's idea that any RADIANT
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SOURCE was emitting extremely energetic and highly charged PHYSICAL
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PARTICLES. He indicated that this highly energetic matter could be
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picked up or accumulated using the proper techniques.
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Does this not then offer a possibility that the mercury vapor
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under the influence of high potential currents could be so projected
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as to accumulate in the body tissues?
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For more information read:
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"Let There Be Light" (by Dr. John Ott),
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"Health & Light" Dr. John Ott
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"Color & Light: Their Effects on Plants, Animals &
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People" Dr. John Ott
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"Light, Radiation & You" Dr. John Ott
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The above book can be order from: Cancer Book House, Cancer Control
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Society 2043 N. Berendo Street Los Angeles, Ca. 90027
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"The Principles of Light and Color" by Edwin D. Babbit (1878) Order
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from: Borderland Sciences
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Submitted by; Ronald Barker
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Vangard Sciences
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