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You are probably wondering why your eyesight is getting worse day by day. Let me answer that question by stating that it's caused by your lifestyle and wearing glasses. Yes my friend. 

 Since you started wearing glasses, why your vision is only deteriorating ? It's a big business, my friend. Here I will offer scientific proof that wearing glasses makes your eyesight worse :)  Impossible you say ?  Let's see...

Let's talk about Myopia, for instance. If you are a student, office worker who stares hours and hours on computer monitor, or a writer who spend majority of his time looking at close objects probably you are short-sighted (myopia). Now if you are a sailor, farmer or spending hours in the ocean fishing  - you rarely can develop myopia since you focus on long distance objects.

 According to  Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education Myopia is caused by a certain lifestyle - prolonged viewing of near objects is the main reason for developing Myopia (download entire study here for free). Another study had shown that outdoor activity reduces the prevalence of myopia in children.  

The purpose of the next study was to compare the prevalence of myopia in children with similar genetic backgrounds but who are exposed to different environments. Study concluded that Tibetan children have a higher prevalence of myopia due to rigorous schooling. 

This scientific study looked at illeterate indigenous people of Brazil and compared them with literate Brazilians. The conclusion was : the low prevalence of myopia in the illiterate indigenous people is consistent with other studies and suggests that myopia is related to literacy. 

You say : " Max, what about glasses ? " Well, right before we begin, please welcome our next guest :

• S. Drucker, O.D. Optical Journal-Review, March 15, 1946 wrote : "One of my clearest impressions in handling myopia cases is that almost all cases of stationary myopia consist of young people who refuse to wear their correction except for those occasions that make a positive demand for normal vision.  Conversely, almost all cases of progressive myopia appear to be individuals who adhere most faithfully to the principle that their corrections must be worn constantly. From a clinical point of view, the conclusion would seem inescapable that minus lenses are an important factor among the causes of progressive myopia." 

Let's see what others were writing about wearing glasses...

• OPTICAL POISON  From Spectacle Hobby by Jacob Raphaelson, OD, 1961:"The bad effects of minus lenses on vision and health have been recognized by many optical men in earlier years, in this and other countries. There have been many voices raised against the promiscuous use of minus glasses at the beginning of the century, and a few feeble voices were heard up to the decade of 1950. In the decade of 1950, the fitting and wearing of minus glasses became the rule rather than the exception.

 

• In the last century, in the land of the Tzars (Russia), minus glasses were sometimes used to evade military conscription. A few months before the appearance for army examination, the conscript went to an optical doctor and got a pair of strong minus glasses which he wore steadily until prior to the examination. He was then sure that he would be rejected on account of his vision. The minus glasses had weakened his eyes and made his distant vision very poor".

    

• In 1914, when the state of Maryland secured its optometry law, a clause was inserted to the effect that optometrists could not prescribe minus lenses to children under 15 years of age "except on an order or advice from a physician." In 1938, Neville Schuller, vision specialist of Toronto, Canada, stated, "I would like to have a law established forbidding the prescribing of minus glasses without extenuating circumstances".
  

• O.D. Rasmussen, O.D., Kent England, stated in his book, "Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given distance lenses for reading."
  

• C.P. Rakusen, O.D., Shanghai, China, said, "from my experience in this land of myopes (i.e. China) I have formed strong prejudices against the evil of weak minus prescriptions in all ages."
  

• Joseph Kennebeck, OD (in Why Eyeglasses are Harmful for Children and Young People, 1969, pp. 53-54) tells how minus lenses turn functional myopia into structural myopia.
  

So what is the deal with these negative dioptre  (minus) lenses ? They are prescribed for nearsighted people. 

While initially alleviating the symptoms, the minus lenses prescribed as corrective lenses for myopia intensify one the risk factors for myopia ( you can read it in any optics textbook).

 For instance this study concluded that constant wearing of minus lenses makes normal sighted monkeys myopic. An interestingly enough, next scientific study discovered that full-time wear of minus lenses prevents recovery in myopic animals that would otherwise recover.

So, what does it all mean?
It means that wearing glasses especially for children absolutely guarantee to get their eyesight worse (pdf) .
As dependency on eyeglasses will increase they will require stronger prescription to see better. So, what you have is  "Everything what is good is bad ."  :)  

Yes, it's time to say goodbye to glasses and restore your vision to normal.  Will it happen overnight ?  No, it will not. 
I created the page with resources , packed with free books and eye charts to guide you through the process of reinstating your vision back to where it needs to be. 

So, you are to consider limiting eyeglasses wear if you are serious about improving your eyesight. Otherwise , if you continue to wear it then your vision will be ruined over time. 

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