Re: Advice for 9-year old newly in glasses.

In article <2POdnbg2TuvgUD3anZ2dnUVZ_rCtnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Tyner
<mtyner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

(Stuff here trimmed - Mike adheres to the consensus view, which IMHO is
at least consistent with what is known from studies on real people).

Stop all unnecessary close work.

That's your solution? Just quit reading?

This is an example of a gap in our knowledge that I would like research
to address. There is epidemiological evidence of some sort of link
between reading and myopia. If we knew more about that link we might be
able to find circumstances in which reading would not produce myopia, or
produce only lesser amounts. Brighter lighting? greater distance to
text? background pattern to break the monotony of lines of black text on
a white background? white on black? All of these are now possible if the
text is on a computer, as is (with more effort) projecting that text on
a screen several feet away from the viewer.
--
A.G.McDowell
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