Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Eyesight and TV

Watching TV can be a great way of relaxing after a long day, and a great waste of time. I'm trying my damnedest not to watch any more Celebrity Big Brother having fallen lazily into the trap on a couple of occasions, as it's so despairingly awful yet addictive. But after a long 12 hour day, television is the easiest veggie way of unwinding. However it has its dangers. Constantly focusing on the screen can have dramatically harmful effects on our eyesight.

As Dr. M.S. Agarwal says in his Complete Book of Eye Care, 'the three common faults of vision are: not using peripheral vision, staring (a non-focused, unblinking condition)and not moving the eyes sufficiently in their sockets. All these conditions are there while watching TV. Therefore TV and Video viewing should be restricted to 40 to 50 minutes especially for children. The viewing should be done at a correct distance (at least 10 feet) and in the correct posture (sitting upright). If these habits are formed in childhood, they can help prevent many problems in the future.'

Keeping our eyes moving is a strange concept as we probably don't ever think about such things. Indeed, if we wear glasses, then the frame of the spectacles create a perimeter border beyond which we rarely venture. They keep ourselves looking straight ahead and our peripheral vision suffers.

Posted by Noël on January 20, 2006 9:36 AM | Permalink