Saturday, February 28, 2009

Fashion Reading Glasses

By Amanda Somrekli

A growing number of vision therapists believe that a series of eye exercises done daily can help keep your eyes younger. Common sense tells us that exercise is important for all the muscles in the body, and the eye muscles are no different.

There are several hundred various exercises for your eyes, and no single exercise can offer the solution to every vision problem.

One you can try if you work at a computer all day is to tack a piece of newsprint to the wall, about 8 feet away from your computer terminal. Interrupt your work every 15 to 20 minutes, and focus on the newspaper, then back to your computer screen. Do this several times daily. This exercise can help prevent the blurry vision that some people experience at the end of their workday.

Deteriorating vision does not have to go along with the aging process. If owning a pair of reading glasses, or bifocals is the last thing you want to do, then its time to focus on prevention.

Going and trying on a few hundred pairs of glasses till you find a pair you like is normal, the more you try on, the more chances you will find the perfect set of reading eyewear.

These can fit in your purse, briefcase, even in your shirt pocket. Most come in specially designed, colorful hard-sided cases for providing complete protection as well as for a sense of style.

If you get a fun pair that you really love, you will want to get a funky necklace to hang them from, so they are on your person at all times. You never know when you'll need them. You may find yourself putting them on more than you have to.

In rare cases you might only need to magnify the words, in this case you don necessarily need prescriptions but it would still be a good idea to double check to make sure that is indeed the case.

Reading glasses can be fun. You don't have to look like Albert Einstein or one of those out of date versions of Marian Librarian just because you need reading glasses. Have some fun with them. Reading glasses are just another fashion accessory, of course, there's also the plus that with your reading glasses you'll be able to - you guessed, it - read.

Before you decide on reading glasses, you need to visit an ophthalmologist or an optometrist. Ophthalmologists are doctor specializing in treating eye problems. Optometrists examine the eye, diagnose problems and prescribe glasses. - 15433

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