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Here's the thing: Reading something extremely close to your eyes is unhealthy and causes eyestrain. (Your eyes work harder to focus on closer items.) If your m

Here's the thing: Reading something extremely close to your eyes is unhealthy and causes eyestrain. (Your eyes work harder to focus on closer items.) If your monitor is so close that you can actually see the details described in the article, you're in the eyestrain land. I keep my monitors far enough away that I don't see these details anymore.

GregorBrandt 6y ago
My optometrist tells me this is not true. Exercise does not hurt your eyes.
- chiefsucker 6y ago
  From my limited understanding not the distance is the problem, but the constant focus at a point in the same distance. That’s the reason why they recommend to look at distant objects every 15 minutes or so. Starring at a tree for ten hours straight would have a similar effect, but woods are so complex that your eyes are constantly refocusing.