| Are you wearing glasses all the time? Do you read in | | | | near-point stress. |
| glasses? Well, here are the reasons why you should | | | | They don't look pretty. I know some of you think |
| not. I understand that it's not easy and sometimes | | | | that they look distinguished in glasses but believe me |
| not even feasible to discard glasses completely but | | | | that is not the case. A person always looks better |
| do yourself a favour and spend at least part of the | | | | without glasses. That scholar look is a malicious |
| day without glasses. | | | | propaganda. |
| Ok, here are what the minus glasses do to us (the | | | | They sweat in the wet weather. It's just plain |
| minus is the worst and does most the damage so I'll | | | | nuisance. |
| concentrate on that). They lock our sight in a fixed | | | | They makes everything look distorted. This is |
| state defined by your prescription and it leads to | | | | especially noticeable if you have higher degrees of |
| stiffening of the muscle and staring. Staring is a sign | | | | myopia. They limit your visual field so you ability to |
| of bad vision. | | | | shift naturally slows down. They make you |
| The minus glasses makes everything look smaller and | | | | dependent. That, of course, is not good. |
| the objects look closer so while you are doing close | | | | Most of these reasons apply equally well to contact |
| work like reading and writing your lens tries to | | | | lenses and while some problems with contacts are |
| accommodate more than usual. That leads to | | | | eliminated the other ones arise. Namely, contact |
| near-point stress. | | | | lenses cut the flow of oxygen to your eyes and that |
| The plus-glasses theory is based on this fact. In fact | | | | can lead to serious problems later on. And perhaps |
| its proponents recommend you wear plus glasses | | | | the most annoying problem with lenses is that you |
| while you are doing any close work because the plus | | | | can't take them off and on easily like you do with |
| glasses in contrast make everything look bigger and | | | | glasses. |
| farther away and that relieves or eliminates | | | | |