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If a healthy lifestyle is important to you, then you probably pay attention to your diet, relationships, and physical exercise. But how much importance do you place on a good night's sleep? For most people, sleep is considered a luxury, not a necessity. Here's the...

Many people hit the gym or go on crash diets this time of year, hoping to get healthy. Some even exercise their eyes, eager to improve vision. But to what end? Do eye exercises work? Can you improve your eyesight by buying a book or curriculum and diligently...

The eye is a complex organ that manipulates light much like a camera does; it has lenses to change the focus and a sensor to recognize intensity and color. How Does the Eye Focus? Starting with the Cornea The first layer of the eye that light hits is the cornea, the...

After a visit to the eye doctor, you will get a prescription if you need corrective lenses. The prescription will only be valid for a fixed time; eyeglass prescription expiration periods vary but are usually one to two years. The expiration date is the last day that your...

It seems like yesterday that Gen-Xers were the young ones. California Raisins were all the rage, and twenty-somethings were abuzz over "Jurassic Park". Today, young people probably wouldn't even recognize those phrases. Culture has changed, and along with it our methods of...

Vision loss is a serious matter but it does come in varying degrees of severity. Some people with high prescriptions occasionally joke that they are “blind as a bat” without their glasses, but of course this is quite different from someone whose visual impairment...

Humans are extremely dependent on their eyes; aside from the blind, who adapt with a heightened awareness of other senses, we use our eyes constantly to gather an enormous variety of information. But many animals use other organs and senses to view the physical world around...

Following an official eye exam with an optometrist, you are usually handed a copy of your eyeglass prescription, which contains information that a lab requires to make a pair of glasses to correct your unique vision problems. This prescription often appears rather cryptic,...