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warned yesterday.
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Scientists have found the body needs darkness to produce a chemical
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across time zones, or the light from street lamps can stop enough. R7 Y) Z) i( @- ^0 {
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The body needs the chemical to prevent damage to DNA and its absence
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'Your brain immediately recognises the light as day and melatonin
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Rates of childhood leukaemia have doubled in the past 40 years.
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About 500 youngsters under 15 are diagnosed with the disease each year and around 100 die. A conference on childhood leukaemia in London yesterday
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higher levels of breast cancer.
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