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Insufficient exposure to bright light is the most accepted explanation, not time spent focusing up close. 90% of Asian schoolchildren are shortsighted.
by Scaevolus 10y ago
Insufficient exposure to bright light is the most accepted explanation, not time spent focusing up close. 90% of Asian schoolchildren are shortsighted.
- John23832 10y agoI think there might be some cause and effect there... how often do you look at a screen in bright light?
- amiga-workbench 10y agoYou know, I really wish PixelQI took off, I would kill for a 12" ThinkPad that I could actually use outdoors.
- jessriedel 10y agoUm, unsurprisingly, they thought of that > Rose's team tried to eliminate any other explanations for this link — for example, that children outdoors were engaged in more physical activity and that this was having the beneficial effect. But time engaged in indoor sports had no such protective association; and time outdoors did, whether children had played sports, attended picnics or simply read on the beach. And children who spent more time outside were not necessarily spending less time with books, screens and close work. “We had these children who were doing both activities at very high levels and they didn't become myopic,” says Rose. Close work might still have some effect, but what seemed to matter most was the eye's exposure to bright light. http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 The evidence is far from overwhelming, but the data is a lot more useful than your layman intuition...
- John23832 10y agoCalm down fancy pants. I'm sorry I was responding to the information in the article rather than going out and doing more research.