Child Myopia. This is one that gets Jake upset on a regular basis. Children (in most cases) don’t need glasses! What they need is educated parents who understand eye strain, ciliary muscle spasm, the impact of lots of close-up reading time, of staring at smart phones and computer screens.
An ounce of prevention, as they say. Read carefully through this section for lots of tips about preventing and reversing child myopia, find parents who had success banishing their child’s myopia, get hope an motivation to keep your own children’s eyes healthy!
Myopic Children: Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Book excerpts as usual:"The Chinese twin study already gave us a tantalizing glimpse at the potential solution to the myopia problem. Genetics have an apparent effect on myopia development but as the study shows, so does the environment. And since you now already know how the eye works, and it’s fascinating mechanism for axial change based on visual stimulus, you are already guessing at the possibilities here.Here is another big picture clue on the whole myopia subject. The global epidemic [...]
Healthy Eyes, Problematic Environment
More excerpts from the book.We left off on the subject of genetic myopia, after looking at optometrist prescription tactics."Now you already have quite a bit of insight on the topic of myopia. What you just spent a short time reading is material that most people never learn about at all. Well done! It’s also things that took me the better part of a decade to find, verify, sort through misinformation and pseudo science. It’s certainly not easy to get the [...]
So Is Myopia Genetic After All?
More child myopia book excerpts: "There are a variety of causes for the symptom commonly referred to as myopia. The symptom is also a bit more nuanced than the average optometrist visit will show you. Most optometrist visits, as we covered earlier, are just designed to sell you a prescription lens. There isn’t further discussion or exploration as to nuances of the symptom, or causes. One question we need to get out of the way is whether myopia is genetic. [...]
Child Myopia: The Diagnosis
Book progress update. For long time readers, no brand new insights here.The task at hand is to take all the key insights and get them into a readable book format. Parents who care about their child's eyesight, busy a they are, will want things succinctly and clearly explained.It'd be an easier task if I was a writer. ;-)But here we are. More excerpts from the upcoming child myopia book:The DiagnosisThe first thing you have to understand is how the optometrist visit [...]
What Can We Call The Child Myopia Book?
A little inside joke, the title.I really do want to make it the cover of the upcoming tell-all I'm writing for you, on child myopia. "Jake, you are too strange for mass consumption. You are going to have to tone it down for the general public." What do you think?Meanwhile the book is still in progress, I'm always looking for scraps of time to write. Take a look at the introduction, perhaps motivate you to share your thoughts and ideas about [...]
Taiwan Passes Law To Limit Child Screen Use
"Parents in Taiwan are now legally obliged to stop their children spending too much time using "electronic products" such as video games and televisions. Under rules passed last Friday by Taiwanese politicians, children under the age of two should be completely banned from using electronic devices, Xinhua, China's official news agency reported. Meanwhile under-18s should not be allowed to "constantly use electronic products for a period of time that is not reasonable". It means electronic products are now listed alongside cigarettes and [...]