Less sun exposure harms kids’ eyesight
KEEPING your children indoors all day may not be healthy at all. According to a new research, the lack of sun could harm children’s eyesight and could be the reason why nine in 10 school-leavers in big east Asian cities are near-sighted.
Neither genes nor the mere increase in activities such as reading and writing is to blame. Exposure to the sun’s rays is believed to stimulate production of the chemical dopamine, which stops the eyeball distorting the focus of light entering the eye.
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