[LINK] Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic

[Marghanita da Cruz]

This or similar research has been around
for some time....the conclusion to the
earlier research was a little more
interesting. It suggested people moving
to/living in cities became short sighted
because they did not use their eyes to
focus on distant objects or the horizon.

Ball sports require you to focus on a
ball at different distances. But I would
suggest, running, swimming and spending
time in the Gym wouldn't be as effective.

We also learn to see things. Over the
years, I have learnt to see Golf Balls,
which as a beginner I was frustratingly
blind to.

Marghanita

Kim Holburn wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427331.100-generation-specs-stopping-the-shortsight-epidemic.html
>> rates of short-sightedness, or myopia, were rising to epidemic  
>> proportions around the world. Today, in some of the worst-affected  
>> countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, around 80 per  
>> cent of young adults are myopic, compared to only 25 per cent a few  
>> decades back.
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> ...
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>> Clearly, some important factor was missing from the equation. Lisa  
>> Jones-Jordan at Ohio State University in Columbus stumbled upon the  
>> next lead in a study published two years ago (Investigative  
>> Ophthalmology and Visual Science, vol 48, p 3524). Analysing the  
>> lifestyle of 514 children aged 8, her team found that within four  
>> years 111 had become short-sighted. Crucially, those children spent  
>> less time engaging in outdoor and sporting activities than those who  
>> did not become myopic - 8 hours compared to 12 hours per week.
> 
> ...
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>> "Our findings suggest that being outdoors, rather than sport per se,  
>> may be the crucial factor," says Rose. The theory has since been  
>> backed up by a study of 1249 teenagers in Singapore, led by Seang- 
>> Mei Saw at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University  
>> of Singapore (British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol 93, p 997).
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