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Fact or Fiction: Health Myths
Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? And do you need all that water? With myths and old wives' tales sounding more like bona fide medical advice, knowing how to take care of yourself can be plain confusing.
Health Tip: Replace Contact Lens Case Every Three Months
You only get one pair of eyes so it's important to care for them as best you can. If you wear contact lenses, here's one thing you can do to keep your lenses clean and prevent eye infections. Every three months (at least) replace your case with a new one.
Wear Contact Lenses? Keep These in Mind
If your vision isn't perfect, and you're an active person, contact lenses are essential in my book. Contacts don't fog up when you're running, or fall off when you're biking. And you can wear them when swimming, you just have to wear goggles or keep your eyes shut.
Protect Your Peepers With UV-Rated Shades
Sunshine in your eyes can do more than make you cry; UV rays, both A and B, can cause serious damage to your baby blues. Since you can't put sunscreen on your eyelids or cover your cornea with zinc oxide, you need to protect your peepers with quality shades that are UV rated. It is recommended that you wear shades the provide 99 percent UVB protection and 95 percent UVA protection, but many sunglasses offer 100 percent protection from both.
Do You Wear Glasses or Contacts?
I have worn reading glasses since my freshman year of high school but was still shocked to learn that 81 percent of Americans wear corrective lenses of some sort.
I guess being the window to the soul requires some outside support. Keeping tabs on the health of your vision is important.
Healthy To-Do: Get Your Eyes Checked
Suffering from dry eyes and blurry vision, major league baseball player Brain McCann, catcher for the Atlanta Braves, was recently outfitted for glasses after having his eyes checked.
While most of us don't depend on our peepers to track incoming curve balls, we all rely on our eyes for just about everything. This is why it is important to have your eyes checked regularly.
Fact or Fiction: Eyesight IQ
We all want to protect our peepers, but how? With so many myths floating around about what's bad or good for your vision, sometimes it's hard to see the truth. So test your eyesight IQ with my quick little quiz and see if this clears some things up.
Your Contact Lenses Could Make You Blind
Many of you rely on your contact lenses in order to help you see, but your lenses could end up taking away your vision. What an ugly irony. The problem starts with a simple single cell microorganism — acanthamoeba.
Bugging Out: How to Deal With Computer Eye Strain
If staring at a computer screen all day has your eyes bugging out, try this simple trick for a little relief.
- Start by rubbing your palms together for about 10 seconds to build up heat in your hands.
- Place the heels of your hands lightly over your eyes and block out as much light as you can. Allow your finger tips to gently press into your forehead because chances are high it is tense, too.
- Hang out in the "dark" for five to 10 slow breaths.
Don't Forget to Blink
When working at a computer we tend to blink about five times less than usual. Blinking might seem like an unimportant activity, but it lubricates eyes. Having dry eyes is not only irritating, but it can interfere with your ability to get your work done and get out of the office.
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