Vision Exercises Improve Eyesight Naturally! Seriously?

Vision conditions are so common that we barely consider them as real health problems. For example, according to the AOA myopia is having an effect on "nearly thirty % of the U.S. population". In other words, every third person you know can't see well distant objects.

Well, right now I'm that 3rd person wearing correction glasses because of myopia. There's only a little that medication can do for my declining vision. If you are like me, you almost certainly looked for alternative eyesight therapies. That's what I did as well and there they're - easy eye exercises, eye movement and targeting routines all promising to enhance eyesight naturally. "Vision exercises can improve vision naturally! Seriously?" I though and decided to find out more about these alternative approaches to vision enhancement.

It all began with a book printed nearly a hundred years back. William Bates MD "The Cure of Imperfect Eyesight by Treatment Without Glasses" paved the way to fast profits for many firms and self-pronounced vision therapists. Bates ideas are the spine of nearly all modern vision cures claiming to naturally improve vision.

Contrary to scientific facts, Bates eyesight improvement strategies are based on the idea that some of the most typical visual acuity defects (nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism) are caused, not to the main shape of the eye and its structures, but to functional problems of the action of the extraocular muscles. The truth is there's very small medical proof to back up such believes.

I found out that modern medicine knows for sure what the causes of the most common eye sicknesses are. The sour fact is that only a few vision conditions are solely caused by malfunction of the eye muscles and therefore can be cured naturally by "exercising" these muscles. Only 1 rational method of eye training and eye exercises - orthoptics, when performed under competent optometric and clinical supervision can fix coordination or binocular eyesight problems like strabism and amblyopic eyes. For everything else, though there could be individual success stories, the outcome of such methodologies are highly controversial.

However, I discovered scientific proof that many vision problems are closely related to diet and way of life. For instance, the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS), subsidized by the NEI, established AMD as a "nutrition-responsive disorder". Various other smaller clinical trials and medical research conclude that individual nutrition and lifestyle patterns together with genetic traits are among the top contributors to the occurrence of specific vision disorders. The secret to prevention, slowing their progression or reducing their symptoms are also in proper nourishment and healthful way of life.

So, is there a 100% assured method to improve vision naturally? Reading half-truths about vision and the "miraculous" results of vision exercises, I made a decision that something should be done. The main idea of the new blog I have created, http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com, is to highlight concern about that controversial subject. It is an fair information source about the validity and efficacy of the commonest therapeutic strategies which claim to improve vision naturally.