ominous blue light
In the current Swiss newspaper magazine No. 62/09 I found a very informative article on the biology of light. After reading it I understood much better why are artificial light, and especially so-called full-spectrum, warm white, daylight or fluorescent organic so harmful to our bodies and especially natural for our eyes.
Our traditional incandescent lamp emits a spectrum of natural light and thus is similar to sunlight. Their light is characterized by a balanced measure of the proportions of visible light, it is a so called full-spectrum light.
Completely different is the contrast with the so-called fluorescent lamps, which include all the above-saving light bulbs. Its light spectrum consists primarily of isolated spikes of excessive individual frequencies of light. "So what?", You might ask, "if it is energy efficient because" ...
Apart from the fact that save the so-called energy saving bulbs no energy, since they represent because of their mercury content of waste and it also the high production and disposal costs in a kind of glamorized "garbage males accounting" purposes, I suddenly realized that light is indeed a form of food - not just for our eyes, but for our entire organism. Through years of polemics against the mass media, natural sunlight, we have completely lost sight of what we actually do to us with the "wrong" Sunlight! (more ...)
