{"id":31187,"date":"2016-10-18T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/your-light-bulbs-could-be-playing-havoc-with-your-health-heres-why"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:18","slug":"your-light-bulbs-could-be-playing-havoc-with-your-health-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/your-light-bulbs-could-be-playing-havoc-with-your-health-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"Your light bulbs could be playing havoc with your health \u2013 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-light-bulbs-could-be-playing-havoc-with-your-health-heres-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent newspaper article under the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/decline-in-sight-and-smell-could-point-to-early-stages-of-dementia-qr27nzggh\">\u201cHigh street eye test can provide early indication of dementia\u201d<\/a> highlighted yet another complex connection between the eye and the brain.<\/p>\n<p>This important eye-brain interface is still being researched and many disciplines are now working together to make fresh findings. But while most of us know that regular physical activity and eating healthily can help maintain or improve our well-being, few are aware of the importance of feeding our eyes with the right kind of light. Indeed, not experiencing the right quality and quantity of light could have adverse effects on hormonal changes, sleep patterns and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/news\/2014\/05May\/Pages\/Is-sleeping-in-a-light-room-linked-to-obesity.aspx\">may even be linked to obesity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/10\/your-light-bulbs-could-be-playing-havoc-with-your-health-heres-why\/\">http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/10\/your-light-bulbs-could-be-pl...heres-why\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent newspaper article under the headline \u201cHigh street eye test can provide early indication of dementia\u201d highlighted yet another complex connection between the eye and the brain. This important eye-brain interface is still being researched and many disciplines are now working together to make fresh findings. But while most of us know that regular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65960,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31187\/revisions\/65960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}