ok I'll drop a couple things from the book that I think makes it worth a look into.

so the rest of this will probably be from

"improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses"
-Beresford, Muris, Allen, Young

They say that almost everyone is born with healthy eyes and less than 2 percent of children have deformed eye balls.

Professor Young in '68 found that

remember most modern medical thinking is that its largely all genetic so sit on your ass take it and come to us for 'cures'

The school of eye docs generally believe the same, no? We can't do anything about it so wear these...

anyway Young/eskimos

-'Eskimos families in process of of being assimilated into the American mainstream.' Great place to do studies with the change in eye use etc Parents illiterate-kids first generation in school

130 parents
128 had excellent distance vision and only 2 had myopia

1 parent had O.25D and the other had 1.50D

the one with the 1.5D the tribal record keeper (interesting?)

Now more than 60% of the kids showed "significant amounts of myopia'.

So its obviously not inherited..

genetic theory and problems with (according to the authors of course-NOT me)

1-if poor vision genetic-shouldn't change after become an adult as shape of eyeballs would be determined by shape of eye socket

adults just keep casting with stronger and stronger lenses (talks about how it makes worse)

2-since computers millions of adults with normal healthy eyes start to develop myopia over the age of 30-after point body stops growing

3-statistcs say other wise
1950-US gov study myopia in US-approx 15% of total population have incidence of myopia
about same looking at reports back to '20s
by 1980-about 40% had incidence of myopia

(1955-in walks Mr TV)


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"The worst thing you can do for myopia is to treat it with 'corrective' lenses..."
Prof Young

"Full correction for distance vision causes the myope to produce extra accommodation when viewing close objects with their lenses on. Since excessive accommodation is impolicated in the etiology of myopia, the eye may become more myopic when fully corrected"
-J Angle and D. A. Wissman, Soc. Sci. Med., 14A 473-479, 1980

"The use of compensatory lenses to treat or nuetralize the symptoms does not correct or cure the problem. The current education and training of eye care practitioners discourages preventative and remidial treatment"
-R. L. Gottlieb, J. Optom. Vis. Dev., 13(1): 3-27, 1982

etc etc