The effect of spending more outside time on nearsightedness
According to new study, kid’s sight problem has to do with the hours they spent out door, the data and the results were taken from a study conducted over 10,400 participants, the cases were children and adolescent and the study was about the affect of outdoor time on myopia.
The number of children is increasing every day and it’s now more common to see in many countries, for example the researchers said that there are some parts in Asia which have a percentage of 80% of nearsighted people in it.
According to this the study recommend to spend more hours outdoor looking from distance to things may be an important factor in decreasing this disease.
The team doing the study said that the risk of having myopia is decreased by 2 per cent for each additional hours children or adolescent spend outside, since the children who are Nearsighted spent in the average rate 3.7 fewer time per week outdoors when compared to those who’s sight is stated to be normal or those who are farsighted.
Until now there is no clear reasons for this issue, but it appears to be more safe to increase the time outdoor than spending time in indoor activities like playing computer games or watching TV, and according to a doctor in the team performing the study, he said that it’s considered simple and cost-effective that have greats benefits on vision and general health too to increase your time out door but still need more precise data, for this future studies will be so helpful to tell us about the effective factors to do such as, making the distance vision larger, having less time of near sight vision, , natural ultra violet light exposure or physical activity.
For people who have nearsightedness, if increasing outdoor time would it be helpful to stop nearsightedness from becoming worst?
The doctor performing the study said that, there was a study conducted in china for two years long on 80 nearsighted child in the age of 7-11 years old, half of them had to spend more 14 hours per week outdoor and less than 30 hours on near work, and by the end of the study, the children who had more time outdoor were less nearsighted on average than the 40 control group children who did not follow the special schedule.
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