A quick note for those of us, who live in climates not blessed by tropical sunshine:
Since there tends to be much less in daylight hours available, and many of these daylight hours are likely to be more overcast, you may want to take more care about getting good light into your day.
Most of the slowing down of progress in vision improvement tends to come in the fall and winter months. We don’t have the luxury of decreasing our work related close-up time, but the opportunities for outdoor walks in daylight are reduced – and while indoors, we tend to rely much more on artificial light to get us through our days.
While this is not a significant problem, it is worth a bit of consideration for potentially adjusting small habits for this season:
- Can you get a half hour or more of outdoor time before it is dark?
- Can you get some full spectrum U.V. bulbs for your close-up ambient lighting?
There is no need to stress over any of it, though a little bit of preparation can make it much easier to get the least possible eye strain during these months of lots of artificial lighting. Especially making sure to have relatively bright ambient light, and possibly some full spectrum U.V., will help curbing possible slowdown in improvement progress of your vision.
A few links here, discussing the U.V. topics:
Vision and Fluorescent Lighting
Forum Topics Discussing Lighting
Feel free to add observations and questions in the forum. Also, consider your children:
More than anyone, children are prone to show the greatest vision deficit in late fall and winter months.
Added to the matter of less natural daylight, generally lesser availability of good local produce, there is also often less outdoor play time. That time tends to be replaced by TV, computer games, and reading, which of course adds to the close-up eye strain. Taking care of lighting (and as always, distance and breaks) is a good idea to maintain vision health of your children.
Along with this, finding replacement activities for the cold season, that may involve physical activity, and eyesight at varying distances, is advisable.
Look for upcoming topics discussing U.V. in snowy conditions, and related recreational activities (ie. skiing, snow sports). There are a few things worth considering, especially for those with brightness sensitivity or cataracts.
I hope you are still enjoying some good outdoor and distance vision time!
