Eye Health Gym

In addition to train the arms, legs, stomach and chest for physical fitness, the eyes also turned out to be trained for the good sense of vision. It's not all experts agree that exercise of the eye (eye-robics) can help maintain vision. However, more and more specialists believe vision therapy eye exercises every day can make your eyes stay young.

"The logic behind this vision therapy is when you can ruin the visual system because the habit of doing something at close range, meaning you can restore it," said Steven Ritter, OD, from the State University of New York College of Optometry in New York City.

Specialist vision therapy or vision therapist may prescribe up to about 280 kinds of training. Not one to overcome vision problems everyone. However, there is no harm if you try some of them.

1. Read newspapers from afar.
If the job requires you to sit at the computer for hours, try the following: Attach a one-page paper on the wall approximately 2.5 meters away from where you normally sit. Quit your job every ten minutes or to direct the view to the newspaper earlier. Try reading the article in the newspaper. Then look at your computer screen. Do this repeatedly, each for 30 seconds, about six times an hour. These exercises can help avoid the vagueness that is often experienced by computer operators at the end of the workday.

2. Throwing the ball into the wall.
Stand at a distance of about one to one and a half feet from a blank wall, facing the wall. Ask a friend standing behind you and then threw a tennis ball against the wall. When the ball was bouncing off the walls, try to catch it. This exercise can help improve the coordination of hand / eye.

3. Reading his own thumb.
Holding up your thumb as far as possible. Make a circular motion, the letter X and without the +, alternately near and far. Follow with your eyes. In the meantime, try to catch the shadow of the room in the field of view you as much as possible. Continue this exercise with one eye closed. Repeat with the other eye. This can increase your peripheral vision.

4. Following the flashlight beam.
These fun exercises that can improve your ability to follow an object with the eyes. This exercise requires a friend and two flashlights. Stand in a darkened room, facing the wall. Ask your friends to shine lights into the wall and move with sweeping movements to form a wave. With a flashlight you hold, follow the circle of light it while trying to balance a book is placed on the head. This way you are forced to follow the movement of light with the eyes, without moving his head.

5. Reading the ball.
Write a letter or number on a softball or soccer balls of Styrofoam, attach a hook, then hang the ball pads at the ceiling with a rope. The smaller your writing, the more difficult the exercise. Swing the ball. Try mentioning the letters or numbers you see. This exercise helps keep your skillfully follow moving objects in focus.

6. Creating a string of beads.
This exercise trains both eyes for a centralized to a target object. It also trains the brain to use both eyes together. Take a long thread about 180 cm, insert it into the hole three beads that have a different color. Tie one end of yarn to the wall with a height parallel to the eye, while the other end will you hold in front of the nose. Slide one bead to the end near the wall, place two beads at a distance of about 120 cm from the nose, while the third at a distance of about 40 cm from the nose.

Navigate your views to the beads of the most distant. You'll see the shadow of two pieces of yarn to form a V with the beads as the center. Move your gaze to the bead in the middle. Note the letter X is formed by the shadow thread with beads center as the center. Then move your gaze back to the closest beads, and witnessing the letter X is similar. Move your eyes from the beads sate to another quickly, and do not forget to pay attention to the letter V or X is formed.

If both your eyes work as a team, you always have to watch two threads shadow crossed each other when your focus to one of the beads. If your eyes do not work together, you will see different patterns or just a yarn.

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The 3D shows bad Affecting Eye Health

A 3-D (three-dimensional) film or S3D (stereoscopic 3D) film/ TV shows.
Technology TV shows and movies into 3-dimensional now. But behind the technological advances, doctors found that the 3D display has a health impact to the viewers.

American Association of Optometrists (association optometrists) conducted an online survey to its 3D viewing audience. The result, a quarter of survey respondents said their eyes were dizzy, dizziness, headache, eye pain, and nausea.

The survey results also suggested, the audience who feel the impact of this kapok 3D watch again. According to Martin Banks, an expert in the eyes of UCLA Berkeley, the impact of the 3D display objects to the eye due to impressions that 'fool' the human eye.

The human eye is usually frozen and continue to focus on one object when the object was approached. But do not make a 3D impression approaching object but showed a series of other objects, this makes the optic nerve to work harder to focus.
"This is what makes your eyes feel uncomfortable and tired when watching 3D," said Banks.

Eye Specialists Association of England, also issued a warning against the impact of 3D Nintendo gadget to the children. According to Nintendo, the eyes of the children need a clear and sharp display for eye development. But 3D impressions do not do this.

"Kids have to rest five minutes after play or watch a 3D display for an hour,"he warned.

3D Impressions bombed the first time consumers through the film. One of the most successful 3D movie Avatar which is pulled in 237 million pounds for the 3D version. Television stations in the UK, Sky, also plans to air the show that requires viewers to use 3D glasses.

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Avoiding Tired Eyes in Front of the Monitor

Some of us would have the habit to work for long in front of a PC monitor, either to work or doing other things like playing games and browsing. As a result the effects of eye fatigue and dizziness head was unavoidable.

While many consider this fact not entirely true, but in reality it is still affecting the health of our eyes. The effect we sometimes a little difficult to focus the object of view, and so forth. This of course caused a radiation monitor for too long when we work.

As quoted from Softpedia, here are some tips to avoid eye fatigue, while in front of the monitor:

1. Keep your distance from the monitor.
Being too close to the monitor is a bit dangerous for our eyes. We should maintain visibility into our monitors well. The recommended distance is about 20-40 inches (50-100cm) from the eye.

If we are still difficult to read when the monitor was located at a distance of 20 inches, try to enlarge the font you until we feel comfortable.

2. Get rid of CRT,  Switch to LCD
Monitor tube (CRT) does give a worse effect than the LCD, in addition to the energy required is also greater. Try replacing our CRT monitors with LCD.

But the price of LCD monitors are more expensive than CRT. For those of us who still love CRT monitors, it's good we buy anti-radiation filters. This is the solution to reduce the pain from the eyes linger in front of the monitor, but with a cheap price.

3. Adjust monitor settings
Some monitors are now many provide pre-set display modes, to allow users to change their screen settings. Pre-set these settings to give different levels brightnes, to adjust the conditions of use of the monitor. Sometimes use it.

For example setting such as, "text" or "internet" will feel much cooler in the eyes, when we use for typing or browsing. This "game" or "movie" will look much brighter when used.

4. Use anti-radiation glasses
Although it costs a relatively more expensive, but it's good to have enough money when we buy anti-radiation glasses. In addition you can take them wherever we work, these glasses are not only useful when we work in front of the monitor, but also protect the eye from the car light, radiation, TV, and so forth.

In fact the anti-radiation coating on the glasses, very useful for our eyes. Because the layer automatically reduces the effects of pain in the eyes of radiation due to excessive light.

5. Rest my eyes for a moment, on a regular basis
The easiest way to avoid eye fatigue due to radiation monitors are resting the eye on a regular basis. Try to rest my eyes for about 5 minutes every hour. We can use it to take 5 minutes walk, see the sights, washing face and so forth. The important thing away from the monitor.

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