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Preventing Sports Eye Injuries
Most eye injuries are entirely preventable. This includes those sustained during athletic activities.
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Lifestyle
The Fascinating World of Animal Eyesight
When it comes to vision, nature is both diverse and innovative. Animals have evolved an array of visual abilities that often far surpass human capabilities, tailored to their unique environments and survival needs.
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Eye Health
Eating for Healthy Eyesight
Have you ever wondered why carrots are credited with improving night vision? This belief actually stems from a clever piece of British wartime propaganda during World War II.
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Eyewear
New to Glasses? Here’s What to Expect.
Embarking on your glasses journey? You’ll soon notice some subtle and surprising shifts in your everyday life — quirks and nuances you’d never anticipate.
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Eye Conditions
What Healthy Living Does for Your Eyes
Maintaining an active lifestyle not only boosts overall health but also benefits our eyes. A balanced diet, adequate sleep, and regular exercise contribute to staying fit, feeling vibrant, and building strength.
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Eyewear
Eye Care Tips for Summer Water Fun
Summer is here, and for many of us, that means heading to the water to cool off and have fun. Whether you’re planning to splash around in a pool, float down a river, paddle across a lake, ride the waves at the ocean, enjoy the thrills of a water park, or slide through your backyard on a Slip N…
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Eyewear
How Well Do Your Glasses Flatter Your Face?
When choosing your next pair of glasses, what factors influence your decision? Consider adding your face shape to that list.
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Eyewear
Sunglasses Are Critical Eye Protection
Summer is coming, bringing with it extended daylight hours and abundant sunshine! With the arrival of the warmer months, many of us find ourselves spending more time outdoors.
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Eye Conditions
Differences in Men’s and Women’s Vision
It might surprise you how different eyesight and eye health can be between the sexes. For instance, men are at a higher risk of sustaining serious eye injuries, while women are generally more susceptible to various eye diseases.
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Eyewear
How Vulnerable Are Our Eyes to Germs?
When we rub our eyes, we might be jeopardizing our eye health. Rubbing our eyes is often an automatic response during moments of fatigue, discomfort from a foreign object, or sensations of dryness and itchiness.
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Eyewear
Blinking: An Important Part of Eye Health
Why do we need to blink so often? If you take a moment to tally your blinks over a minute without altering your natural rhythm, you’ll likely find that an adult blinks between ten to twenty times each minute, with each blink lasting only about a tenth of a second.
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Kids & Vision
When Headaches and Eye Problems Are Linked
Frequent headaches can stem from unexpected sources, including vision problems. If you find yourself grappling with recurrent headaches, we recommend scheduling an eye examination to investigate potential vision-related factors.
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Vision Care
A Typical Eye Exam
About one in five adults in the United States has an undiagnosed eye condition. This underscores the critical importance of regular eye exams for maintaining optimal vision health.
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Eye Conditions
Being Colorblind Can Mean Different Things
Color blindness isn’t all black and white. Despite common misconceptions, color blindness doesn’t equate to seeing the world like a black and white movie.
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Eye Conditions
Stopping AMD in Its Tracks
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of permanent vision loss for people over fifty. The slow loss of central vision occurs due to the deterioration of the macula, the part of the retina with the highest concentration of photoreceptor cells and the part that gives us our…
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Eye Conditions
Basic Tips for Keeping Your Eyes Healthy
A crucial yet oft-overlooked component of a high-quality life is healthy eyesight. Approximately one in six adults grapple with sight-threatening eye conditions, while a significant number experience some degree of vision loss as they age.
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Lifestyle
A Guide to Safer Night Driving
As winter rolls in, the days get shorter, making night driving harder to avoid. For those of us without perfect eyesight, this annual adjustment can be stressful and potentially dangerous if we neglect the specific challenges posed by driving in the dark.
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Eye Conditions
How Autoimmune Diseases Impact Eyesight
Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which the immune system turns on healthy cells. Some of these diseases can have a serious and negative impact on the health and function of the eyes.
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Eye Conditions
Smoking Versus Eye Health
Smoking causes harm to every organ in the body, including the eyes. We usually think of lung cancer first when it comes to the harms of smoking, and maybe we think of oral health issues next, but even the parts of the body that don’t come into direct contact with the smoke are in danger.
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Kids & Vision
What Causes Different Eye Colors?
The same compound that determines our skin color also creates the variety of eye colors we see. In fact, it’s the very same compound that protects our skin and eyes from getting damaged by the sun (though we still need sunglasses and sunscreen to finish the job).
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Eyewear
Glasses Across History
Since at least 60 AD, people have been crafting tools to correct vision problems. There are records of Roman philosopher Seneca magnifying text with a glass globe of water.
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Eyewear
Eyes and Sleep: A Two-Way Link
Insufficient sleep can affect the mind and body like alcohol, but what does it do to our eyes? For the sake of both our overall health and our eye health, we need to be getting plenty of sleep, but it’s actually a two-way street.
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Eye Conditions
Aging and Eye Health: What You Need to Know
The older we get, the more our eyesight tends to change. As we age, our vision can undergo significant changes, ranging from the subtle to the sight-threatening.
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Vision Care
Eye Exam Frequency
How often should you be getting an eye exam, considering your eye health history? Preventative care is as important for our eyes as it is for our teeth and our overall health, which means we should be getting regular eye exams even when we don’t need a new glasses or contact lens prescription.
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