With National Eye Health Week from the 18th-25th September, it is worth giving a thought as to how pregnancy can affect your eyesight. Eye health may not be the first thing which springs to mind when you are expecting a new arrival. But actually, pregnancy can really affect your eyes…
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National Eye Health Week: The Top Advice For Healthy Eyes
National Eye Health Week is a great time to talk about looking after and protecting your eyes. The purpose of the week is to really focus on how you can ensure your eyes stay healthy, how you can eat to improve your vision and the importance of regular eye tests…
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Healthy Eyesight: Top 5 Tips
An astounding 1 billion people are at risk of blindness, and around 5 billion people will be myopic in the next thirty years as predicted by The American Academy of Ophthalmology. In this digital age, it has never been more important to take care of your eyes. Working on devices all…
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Eye Health: Best Exercises For Your Eye Muscles
Over the past few decades, there has been a marked increase worldwide in the number of people requiring glasses and contact lenses. There are a number of different reasons why this could be, from the ever-increasing use of digital screens in our daily lives to not enough of us exercising…
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Why You Should Wear Sunglasses
While the UK is known for it’s rather bad and rainy weather, any day where the sun makes an appearance is a blessing. But how often do you wear your sunnies when the sun decides to shine? All the time? Most of the time? Never? Newsflash: It’s not only a fashion…
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Eye Health: Superfoods And The Importance Of Diet
The saying goes that you are what you eat, but when it comes to your eye health, this idiom couldn’t be truer. With the bombardment of health advice at hype about the latest superfoods coming at you right, left and centre, it can be hard to keep up with what…
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New Development To Fix Colour Blindness
In the last few weeks video footage showing a young boy from Iowa, USA seeing the world in full colour for the first time thanks to some new glasses he has got from the company Enchroma, has gone viral on the net. Cayson Irlbeck had been saving up for the…
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How Often Should You Change Your Glasses?
Knowing when to change or replace your glasses can be quite tricky. It often depends on your personal circumstances, needs and whether you are in need of replacements or, alternatively, you’d just like a fresh pair. It’s recommended that you visit your optometrist once a year for a basic eye examination…
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Top 5 Ways to Protect Eyes From Computer Screens
In today’s working world it is rare that a job does not involve the use of a computer or mobile device. And I’m not just talking about desk jobs. Jobs that involve working at a till or in manufacturing now include regular display screen work, so it’s not surprising that…
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5 Ways Your Lifestyle Is Affecting Your Eyesight
Looking after our eyesight is something we all need to do. Unless, of course, the idea of gradually degenerating eye health appeals to you? No? Didn’t think so. What do we need to do in order to help maintain healthy eyes throughout our lives? What aspects of our lifestyle affect…