The Impacts of Smoking on Eyesight
A smoking habit damages every organ and system in the body, including the eyes.
Vision Tips
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How Eye Color Works
Human eye color comes from melanin, the same compound that determines skin and hair color.
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Corrective Lenses Through History
Since as early as 60 A.D., people have been using vision-correcting tools to help them see.
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The Relationship Between Eyes and Sleep
Studies have shown that sleep deprivation hits the body and mind a lot like alcohol.
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Makeup Eye Safety Tips
Back in the old days, makeup was full of ingredients like lead, arsenic, and mercury.
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Keeping Our Eyes Healthy as We Age
Among the many changes our bodies undergo as we get older are the changes to our eyesight.
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How Does Animal Eyesight Work?
We wouldn’t have gone into the optometry field if we weren’t fascinated by eyes, and there are some incredible ones in nature.
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Eye Exams: Vital to Your Child’s Education
A staple of every school nurse’s office is the big E eye chart.
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Eyesight Is More Than 20/20 Vision
We tend to think of 20/20 vision being a synonym for perfect eyesight, but that isn’t quite true. All it means when someone has 20/20 vision is that they have normal visual acuity without refractive errors like nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism. There is a wide range of vision problems that have nothing to do with […]
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What Are the Most Eye-Healthy Foods?
We’ve all heard that eating carrots will give us amazing eyesight. Fun fact: that idea is actually leftover World War II propaganda. The British wanted to keep their new radar technology secret from the Germans, so they claimed far and wide that their airmen got superhuman night vision by eating lots of carrots. Whether the […]