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EYEnews May 2004 issue Cambridge Institute for Better Vision THE WORLD'S LEADER IN NATURAL EYE CARE |
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In this issue:
1. Vision Tip of the Month: How to Best Nourish and Rest Your Eyes
2. New Help for Presbyopia (Middle-Age Sight)
3. Q & A: The Best Prescription for Your Eyes?
4. The Vision Challenge – This Month’s Winner
1. Vision Tip of the Month: Nourish and Rest Your Eyes.
The eyes see best in natural light. Sunlight is a nutrient for your body just like food and water. That we spend nearly all day under artificial light has far-reaching consequences for our vision.
To get the light nourishment your eyes and body need, spend 20 to 30 minutes a day outdoors – without glasses or contacts – so that your visual system can receive unfiltered sunlight. Any glass – window, windshield, eye glass, contact lens – filters part of the full spectrum of light, reducing the beneficial effects of sunlight. (In situations of glare or reflected light, we recommend "neutral gray" sunglasses, which filter all parts of the light spectrum equally.)
Your eyes most fully rest in total darkness.
Outdoors, nourishing and resting your eyes is best accomplished with an exercise called "The Sun Cycle":
1. Close your eyes and face the sun. (If you cannot face the sun with your eyes closed without squinting or tightening your facial muscles, then begin The Sun Cycle by facing slightly away from the sun so your face and closed eyes can relax. As you become more accustomed to the light, you can gradually turn closer towards the sun.)
2. Let the sunlight fall on your closed eyes for five seconds.
3. Cup your palms over your closed eyes (don't touch your eyelids), shutting out all light for five more seconds, then take your hands away, keeping your eyes closed.
4. Repeat steps 1 to 3, ten to twenty times, for a total of three to five minutes.
The Sun Cycle will help nourish your visual system, exercise the focusing muscles of your eyes and reduce your sensitivity to glare.
This vision tip is excerpted from The Program for Better Vision book, ON SALE this month at: Click here
2. The Read Without Glasses Method. Having difficulty with up-close work or reading a menu in a restaurant? Using reading glasses already, or thinking about getting them?
Our latest unique exercise system, originated by noted eye doctor, Dr. Ray Gottlieb, is a safe, natural and effective approach to counter "middle-age sight," known medically as presbyopia. Available on DVD or Video, The Read Without Glasses Method will show you how to sharpen your near vision without reading glasses, bifocals or the risk of surgery.
In as little as 6 minutes a day, you can:
Keep yourself from needing reading glasses;
See better up close without reading glasses;
See better in dim light;
Reduce the strength of your current prescription;
Avoid, eliminate or reduce the need for bifocals.
The Read Without Glasses Method builds eye muscle strength and also helps develop tone, flexibility and balance in the eyes and visual system. Find out more at www.bettervision.com.
3. Q & A: What is an Under-Corrected Prescription and How Would I Benefit from Using One?
An under-corrected prescription encourages your visual system to work with the glasses or contacts – and not just passively depend on them – in order to see.
With an under-corrected prescription for distance vision, you probably won't be able to read the very bottom line on the eye chart. But this under-corrected prescription will be strong enough for you to drive safely and legally and to see comfortably in almost every situation. If you use reading glasses, with an under-corrected prescription you might need to hold the reading material a little farther away than normal from your eyes in order to read it.
If you are also doing eye exercises, then, as your vision improves, what started as an under-corrected prescription will eventually become too strong, and you'll need a weaker prescription still. Instead of your prescription getting stronger and stronger over time, starting with an under-corrected prescription can make your glasses or contacts get weaker and weaker.
For more about under-corrected prescriptions, and to find a doctor in your area who will work with you go to; www.bettervision.com and click on Find An Eye Doctor.
Email your question(s) to info@bettervision.com. We'll choose one to answer every month.
4. Vision Challenge Winner: Pauline Signor, 62, of Harrisburg, Penna., nearsighted since she was 28, has also been faced with astigmatism and farsightedness. Now, after using The Program for Better Vision audiotape series on and off for a couple of years, she "never wears or uses her glasses anymore."
"My astigmatism has improved by 50%, and my nearsightedness and far sightedness have improved as well. My optometrist is continually impressed with my results. It's exciting! Just recently I threaded a needle without glasses."
Congratulations, Pauline!
You could become the next Vision Challenge winner - tell us about your successes! Winners receive a $50.00 Gift Certificate to products available on http://www.bettervision.com.
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