What are the benefits of natural light for health?
Some experts found that natural light may be helpful in the following situations: • Season Affective Disorder (depression caused by lack of sunlight) • Improvement of the sight as a result of very sharp contrast and improved colour rendering • Improvement of concentration and performance in schoolchildren • Reduction of caries • Lowering of the cholesterol level • General wellbeing Natural/full spectrum light is also used as a prophylactic for daily light therapy. Why Full Spectrum Lighting? Until 100 years ago, ninety percent of the world’s population worked outdoors. Now ninety percent work indoors under artificial lights – but changing work patterns have not changed the human need for balanced light. Our eyes are designed to work most efficiently in natural light, a balanced, white light. Ordinary incandescent or fluorescent lights, however, are unbalanced, producing a yellow or greenish light. Under these unbalanced lights our eyes must work harder to see, in effect straining to co
