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I spent most of my childhood either running around outside or reading books -- I barely watched TV and never touched a computer until I was 12. I'm pretty sure
by akamaka 17y ago
I spent most of my childhood either running around outside or reading books -- I barely watched TV and never touched a computer until I was 12.
I'm pretty sure that has a lot to do with my perfect vision. All of my friends wear glasses, and they all grew up watching TV and playing console games. Not only were they indoors, looking at a screen a few feet away, but that screen was very fuzzy, not even requiring or allowing them to focus sharply.
I'm really interested to see if the advent of HDTV will actually help in the future.
- tokenadult 17y agoI'm really interested to see if the advent of HDTV will actually help in the future. My sense of epidemiological research that I have read earlier suggests that genetic susceptibility to myopia is triggered by an environment of maintaining the same near focal length in vision for long spans of time. The key preventive thing to do is not to avoid looking at things that are blurry images, but to make sure to vary one's eyes' focal length continually throughout the day. Most outdoor sports with balls in rapid motion (soccer, backyard baseball or football or basketball, etc.) pretty much ensure this. My second son's vision has actually improved in the last two years from almost needing glasses for myopia back to not needing any vision correct as he stays active on his town club traveling soccer team, which trains year-round. (He LOVES to read and spends many hours in front of the computer writing stories too, but I make sure he gets outdoor play every day, all winter and all seasons.) Vary your eye focus to preserve the best vision you can with the shuffle of genes you were born with.