Lorsss
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most people think eye disorders like myopia are genetical and hereditary, however this belief is completely wrong because this disorder did not exist in the past (except for old people) and myopia is strongly connected to the modern urban lifestyle.
near-sightedness has been increasing extremely fast in last decades, for example some reasearches have reported the myopia in young people rate has reached 90% in the most developed countries.
sourche: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3237940
the myopia rise is clearly visible in indigenous people who met the modern lifestyle recently: in 1960 near-sightedness did not exist in Inuit people (Canada native americans), but 30 years after the 30% of Inuit people had eyes disorders.
researchers have proposed many theories about myopia rise, but it's clear that modern technological devices have ruined people's sight.
if the human eye is often obliged to focus on near objects (for example a school book or a smartphone), it deforms it's shape in order to adapt to near objects sight, as a result the eye can see sharply near objects, but loses completely the ability to focus on far things.
What can I do to prevent near-sightedness?
- when you are reading a book or writing on a piece of paper, keep your head at least 50cm far from the piece of paper. This will also improve your posture.
- all the people who use smartphones usually keep the device at 15cm (6 inches) from their eyes, this habit is completely harmful for your eyes so you should keep the smartphones much further from you in oder to prevent myopia. Furthermore most people don't actually realize how much time they spend on the smartphone: 8 hours is the average smartphone usage time in young people. My advice is to stop using completely the smartphone because, as I said before, slouching 8 hours on a mobile is also bad for your posture.
I know a girl who told me her slight myopia disappeared after she finished university. She was very studious and she passed many hours with her eyes "attached" to books. The eye deformation that causes myopia is probably irreversible, but if you improve your lifestyle you will avoid further reduction of your sight and probably will get a little improvement.
I would be honored to see this thread in the looksmax archive, because we need to spread the truth about myopia, which is easily preventable.
near-sightedness has been increasing extremely fast in last decades, for example some reasearches have reported the myopia in young people rate has reached 90% in the most developed countries.
sourche: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3237940
the myopia rise is clearly visible in indigenous people who met the modern lifestyle recently: in 1960 near-sightedness did not exist in Inuit people (Canada native americans), but 30 years after the 30% of Inuit people had eyes disorders.
researchers have proposed many theories about myopia rise, but it's clear that modern technological devices have ruined people's sight.
if the human eye is often obliged to focus on near objects (for example a school book or a smartphone), it deforms it's shape in order to adapt to near objects sight, as a result the eye can see sharply near objects, but loses completely the ability to focus on far things.
What can I do to prevent near-sightedness?
- when you are reading a book or writing on a piece of paper, keep your head at least 50cm far from the piece of paper. This will also improve your posture.
- all the people who use smartphones usually keep the device at 15cm (6 inches) from their eyes, this habit is completely harmful for your eyes so you should keep the smartphones much further from you in oder to prevent myopia. Furthermore most people don't actually realize how much time they spend on the smartphone: 8 hours is the average smartphone usage time in young people. My advice is to stop using completely the smartphone because, as I said before, slouching 8 hours on a mobile is also bad for your posture.
I know a girl who told me her slight myopia disappeared after she finished university. She was very studious and she passed many hours with her eyes "attached" to books. The eye deformation that causes myopia is probably irreversible, but if you improve your lifestyle you will avoid further reduction of your sight and probably will get a little improvement.
I would be honored to see this thread in the looksmax archive, because we need to spread the truth about myopia, which is easily preventable.