Posted on 03/04/2024 5:28:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
Gen Zers are getting increasingly near-sighted from staring at their electronic devices all day and face a blindness epidemic if they continue to stay indoors while phone-addicted, a leading eye surgeon warns in a new report.
The rates of near-sightedness, or myopia, have been skyrocketing across the world with an increase of 46% in the UK over the last three decades, according to the Daily Mail. In the US, a study from California says myopia has spiked a staggering 59% among teenagers.
And Zoomers face mounting risks of developing serious vision problems – even leading up to blindness – after missing out on natural sunlight during puberty, the outlet reports.
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I did know that.
But it was kind of tongue in cheek in response to post 11 which was “Just remember, you do not remember a darn thing you had seen from FR. ^)”.
Although, it would be hard for me to deny I knew about FR unless my computers were obliterated.
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