According to the report “Blindness and vision impairment” by the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind, and 1.3 billion people on the planet suffer from some form of visual impairment. The fear of blindness is in the top five most widespread phobias (occupying the fourth place), but, surprisingly, we do very little…
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Notebooks, smartphones, tablets… Every day we spend many hours looking at our screens. According to the calculations of Neilson Company in the report titled “Americans Devote More Than 10 Hours a Day to Screen Time, and Growing,” an average adult American spent 10 hours 39 minutes with electronic devices every day during 2016 and 2017,…
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According to WHO, more than 2,000,000,000 people on Earth do not see the world as clearly as they actually should. This means that about a quarter of all people in the world need vision correction. Myopia and hyperopia are the most common conditions. Nearsightedness (myopia) is a visual impairment in which a person can see…
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As we age, we notice that it has become more difficult to see in twilight or darkness. This makes us feel uncomfortable and leads to a decrease in the quality of life over the years. Here are the reasons for eyesight deterioration and how to avoid this problem. How eye muscles work? We get used…
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