Time spent outdoors is the best defence against rising rates of short-sightedness, but scientists are searching for other ways to reverse the troubling trend.
Wasn’t myopia linked to lack of exposure to sunlight while growing up? The cure is literally for children to go outside more. and for those with it LASIK is the only solution.
Right, could always be in a poorly ventilated warehouse breaking your back, killing your lungs, and developing arthritis. Though I guess arthritis will come for the office warrior as well.
Exactly! I used to work manual labor, and finally found a job that I can actually get through a day without aching or wishing I was dead. Don’t knock on office work, because there are plenty of worse jobs that can be had!
Let’s hope there is a way to cure it.
I always thought it was only genetic, so noone could do anything against a wrong eyeball shape. But this seems very uplifting.
I wonder though why this article cites mainly eastern Asian sources. Is the rest of the world not interested in curing myopia?
Wasn’t myopia linked to lack of exposure to sunlight while growing up? The cure is literally for children to go outside more. and for those with it LASIK is the only solution.
As I understand it, it isn’t sunlight, but distance.
If a child spends all its time indoors focusing on nothing farther than the walls, myopia will result.
Well how do you expect the kid to prepped to spend all of their adult working life in front of computer screen?
If they’re lucky, and hopefully they are! There are a LOT more bad jobs out there than sitting inside and looking at screens.
Right, could always be in a poorly ventilated warehouse breaking your back, killing your lungs, and developing arthritis. Though I guess arthritis will come for the office warrior as well.
Exactly! I used to work manual labor, and finally found a job that I can actually get through a day without aching or wishing I was dead. Don’t knock on office work, because there are plenty of worse jobs that can be had!
I believe it’s a combo of sunlight and distance according to experts.
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The article goes into detail on this
It has been a noticeable phenomena in East Asia for about 2 decades longer than the West. They’ve been studying it longer/have more data.
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