article_snippet: In a corner, above your head, beams the ‘artificial sun’.
article_snippet: It looks like a row of wall-mounted security lights — three square boxes, the sort you might get at a football stadium.
article_snippet: ‘Light boxes do work,’ says Dr Daya,
article_snippet: this is the full spectrum — infra-red, UVA, UVB and you get the heat, whereas with SAD boxes, you just get visible light.
article_snippet: Commissioned to create a sunlight tunnel for Swedish car manufacturer Saab to test the effects of the sun’s rays on different paints, his noticed that the factory workers liked to congregate under the sun lamps during the factory workers breaks.
article_snippet: his realised people could get benefits from sitting under the artificial sunlight his’d created.
article_snippet: Initially, the biggest demand for sunlight rooms came from the elderly and nursing homes.
article_snippet: Some people really go to town with replicating a holiday feel for Some people sunlight rooms,’ says Karl Emanuelsson, the UK company representative.
article_snippet: A woman looks at a ' light lounge' - a treatment aimed at Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers (SAD)
article_snippet: And, boy, do those lamps give off light.
article_snippet: Not just light, but heat.
article_snippet: And one elderly user of a nursing home sunlight room says one elderly user of a nursing home sunlight room helps alleviate aches and pains, especially joints, and has a positive effect on Dr Daya brain power