What You Should Know About Saving Your Vision Our first March 2023 article was about “Eye Safety and Awareness”. This second March 2023 article will focus on things you can do to protect and save your eyes’ health and vision. The American Optometric...
Digital Devices, Eye Strain, And Technology Digital eye strain (DES) is fatigue of the eyes due to reading or looking at a computer screen for too long. In the United States, approximately 80 percent of Americans use a digital device for more than two hours per day,...
The Correlation Between A Rich And Health Diet And Healthy Eyes Eating foods rich in processed high-fat, lots of added sugar, and simple carbs can increase the risk of eye diseases like AMD resulting in eye problems and vision loss. AOA reports that researchers have...
Vision Loss And Blindness Vision loss is a degree of blindness that can not be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. For many people, vision loss occurs somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, “legally blind” or “low vision.” A large percentage of individuals...
Glaucoma And Your Lifestyle Did you know that the average life expectancy of people with chronic open-angle glaucoma is approximately 12.8 years? The number of Glaucoma cases in 2020 worldwide was approximately 80 million and the projection for 2040 is approximately...