Living in Scandinavia has really made me hate the kind of studies. You have stupid advise like "Get up early and get sun in your eyes first thing in the morning"... Okay so which is it, sleep til' 9:00 or get up early, in the dark? It's the same with, go to bed when it's dark, right now the sun set at 15:40.
If the suggestion is that I reduce my working hours drastically during the winter I'm all for it, but it is getting a little tiresome that supposed scientists completely ignore the fact that a pretty sizeable chunk of the worlds population lives pretty far north and have done so for thousands of years.
The research may very well be right, but it's not particularly useful if you don't address the fact billions of people live in areas where you're recommendation don't make sense.
When I was preparing for a trip south, I noticed that the southernmost city (according to itself), Ushuaia is south of 54 degrees latitude, while Copenhagen is nothing like the northernmost city yet is about 55 degrees north.
This is a way of amplifying that plenty of people live north of other people. Whole countries.
If the suggestion is that I reduce my working hours drastically during the winter I'm all for it, but it is getting a little tiresome that supposed scientists completely ignore the fact that a pretty sizeable chunk of the worlds population lives pretty far north and have done so for thousands of years.
The research may very well be right, but it's not particularly useful if you don't address the fact billions of people live in areas where you're recommendation don't make sense.