This weekend’s time change means loss of 60 minutes of sleep

Lovers of additional daylight during the evening hours will welcome the time change this weekend, when this part of the country will “spring forward”.  On Sunday, we’ll all need to move our clocks and timepieces ahead one hour, which means that between Saturday and Sunday, 60 minutes of sleep will be lost.  According to Prisma Health, preparation is key to helping prevent time-change sleepiness, grogginess, and irritability.  Sleep medicine physician Antoinette Williams Rutherford offers these tips to help improve your sleep as you adjust the next few weeks:  Begin transitioning now; aim for seven to eight hours of sleep each night; maintain your sleep schedule; avoid alcohol, tobacco and caffeine; create a nighttime routine; avoid long naps; and soak up the sun.