A 2016 Nielsen Company report revealed that Americans spend over 10 hours per day consuming screen-based media, including time spent on TVs, smartphones, computers, and video games. Screen time and its relation to our vision health is a widely studied health concern by researchers. Let's learn about blue light and the nutrients that are beneficial to eye health. What is blue light? Sunlight is mad...
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As you're sitting in front of a screen, reading this newsletter, are you reading with optimal lighting conditions? Is the screen size maximized and yet you find yourself squinting to read it clearly? If so, you're like many of your fellow Americans. We seem to spend too many hours a day reading in bad light, staring at computer screens, watching TV and squinting at our smart phones and tablets. As...
Vitamin D deficiency can affect many people across the globe. The Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio, states that 42% of Americans are Vitamin D deficient as of 2018. Looking back to 2010, a study in the International Journal of Health Sciences noted that more than 1 billion people were Vitamin D deficient globally. So to get Vitamin D, all you have to do is go outside for a little while, right?...
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