New FDA-approved glasses can slow nearsightedness in kids

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5. OK, I should have gotten that on my own. For some reason I was trying out all kinds of consonants ...

and completely ignored the vowel.

TBOMK you are quite right about using both near and far vision as a deliberate exercise. As a child I was an indoor-dwelling bookworm and was forced to start using glasses just to see the blackboard in 3rd grade. Only in later years did I learn that exercising distant vision was so important. It's interesting that members of many pre-literate societies had/have famously good vision -- especially desert and plains nomads, who had need to constantly check the horizon.