Rebuild Your Vision - Naturally

Rebuild Your Vision Program $30 Scratch and Dent Coupon

2009-10-29T16:30:00.000-07:00

A couple times a year I send a very special offer to subscribers of my email series. This is one of them...

We have 176 slightly "blemished" Rebuild Your Vision Programs that we are offering a $30 discount on.

These are not used programs. They are just slightly scuffed or marked.

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Last time I did this we ran out in a few days, so be
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To your vision, for life.

Sincerely,

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How Vision Works

2009-10-22T12:14:00.000-07:00

Eye Exercises Do Work To Improve and Maintain Your Eyesight

How Vision Works?

Vision needs filtering background from foreground and determining things illustrated in a wide array of directions.

The neural means of visual sensitivity provide rich awareness about how the brain maneuvers such difficult situations.

Working:

Visual perception starts as soon as your eye targets light onto the retinas, wherein it is attracted by a coating of photoreceptor cells. These cells create electrochemical indicators from light. These cells are of two types namely cone cells and rod cells.

Rod cells assist for night vision, as they respond well to dull lighting conditions. Rods are present in the tangential portions of your retina.

On the other hand, cone cells focus themselves in a core portion of retina known as fovea, as they help in high visual acuity jobs such as reading and distinguishing between colors. There are three subcategories in cones based on their reactions with blue, green, or red light. All these three cone varieties help us to recognize colors.

Next, the signals originated from the photoreceptor cells are forwarded through a network of interneurons in the second coating of your retina spread towards the ganglion cells present in the third coating.

Further, neurons present in both these retinal coatings display intricate receptive fields that allow them to determine contrast alterations in a picture. These alterations might also hint for borders or shadows. Conversely, ganglion cells collect these details along with the details of color to pass them onto the brain through optic nerves.

The optic nerve passes details via the thalamus towards the cerebral cortex, the place where visual perception takes place. On the other hand, nerves also transport details needed for the mechanics of vision to a couple of sites in the brainstem.
The first site is called the pretectum, which controls the size of pupils, whereas the second site is called as the superior colliculus, which helps your eyes to move in short leaps, known as saccades.

In addition, saccades facilitate the brain to distinguish a smooth scan by combining a sequence of stationary pictures.

Several signals from the retina pass through the optic nerve to the thalamus known as the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) positioned at the core of your brain. Next, the LGN classifies retinal signals into parallel flows, with one containing color and structure, and other containing motions and difference.

Out of the six layers of the LGN, four are known as parvocellular layers, whereas the remaining two are known as magnocellular layers.

Cells present in the parvocellular and magnocellular layers travel to the back of brain to the primary visual cortex (V1). In addition, the arrangement of cells in V1 allows the visual system to analyze objects.

Finally, V1 is structured into orientation columns with heap of cells. These orientation columns help V1 to determine the perimeters of objects in the visual world, and thus they start the complex job of visual perception.

Come On And See If The Rebuild Your Vision Program Is For Your

2009-08-31T06:28:00.000-07:00

If you have vision issues then rest assured that you can improve or prevent many (not all) of these issues naturally, as "The Bates Technique For Better Visual acuity Without Glasses". There are modern day vision programs to help you.

Dr. William Bates, an ophthalmologist who lived in the early part of the 20'th century is the fore-runner of natural vision improvements with eye exercises.

Because vision is influenced by emotional factors like stress, (and we all have that) Dr. Bates advises many relaxing exercises that would relieve pressure and strain from the eye muscles that are causing vision issues. I am a church organ player, and I know that I have good days and bad days reading the notes!

Even today, many are still testifying to the efficiency of Dr. Bates’ strategies.There is a system/program available today called the "Rebuild Your Vision System".

You may be able to save yourself hundreds, if not thousands of dollars by trying to improve your vision naturally.

If you are tired with your glasses or contact lenses then give this a try...after all it's easy, and you can see results almost immediately.

Come on over and check it out for yourself! Rebuild Your Vision...many have done so successfully.

Simple Prevention & Exercing Your Eyes

2009-08-31T03:40:00.000-07:00

photo credit: Paul Keleher

Across our Nations, millions of people suffer from eye diseases and vision loss. We want to reinforce the importance of proper eye care and bring awareness about how to protect and prolong healthy vision.
By taking simple preventative steps such as wearing sunglasses and using protective goggles while exposed to hazardous objects or environments, Americans can help maintain their eyesight. Regular eye exams are also key to safeguarding healthy vision. As a result of the Medicare Modernization Act, Medicare may pay the cost of exams for those who are eligible and have a high risk of diabetic eye disease or glaucoma. More information about healthy vision and eye care can be found by visiting nei.nih.gov.

W encourage everyone to learn more about eye care and eye safety, and take measures to help ensure a lifetime of healthy vision .

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Testimonials To Eye Exercises And Success

2009-08-19T04:57:00.000-07:00

Do eye exercises really work? YES, THEY DO!

Read the following testimony. And, there are many more of these on the site!

Days 1 – 30: -2.5 to -1.75 in one month…

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“I’ve been doing the Rebuild Your Vision program for about one month. I went to the doctor to have my prescription checked and he couldn’t believe I had gone from -2.5 to -1.75 in a mere month! (I guess he couldn’t believe I had improved to start with.) When I ordered new contacts they seemed very confident I was making a mistake ordering just one pair of lenses instead of the usual 3 for three months. I told them that would be a waste because I’m confident my eyes will improve still… Can’t wait to see the look on their faces the next time I need a lighter
prescription!”

John

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All the testimonies on this site have first and last names...and lots of results and successes

How To Improve Your Vision Naturally…Without Glasses, Contacts, or Surgery Natural Eye Exercises!

2009-08-19T04:51:00.000-07:00

“The Rebuild Your Vision Program”

While it’s true that very few eye doctors offer instruction in natural eye exercises which can dramatically improve your vision, you should know that eye exercises are PROVEN to rebuild vision. Here’s what a few studies from leading experts in eye care say about improving vision naturally:

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“Subjects often stated that they had experienced the ability to make eye contact (without correction) with people across a room or street; they could seebuildings and windows clearly without glasses many miles across San Francisco Bay, or in the case of high diopter myopes (> -4.0 diopters) they were able to read books easily at arms length.”
–Journal of the American Optometric Association.
“Thousands of young men applying for admission to the various branches of the armed forces discovered that they could not meet the visual requirements. As a result of visual training, most successfully passed the visual requirements of the service that had previously rejected them. The evidence is conclusive that optometric methods of visual training improve the acuity of most myopes.”
–Journal of the American Optometric Association.“There is acceptable evidence that in motivated subjects, even myopes with greater than two diopters refractive error, visual acuity can be improved by visual training.”
–American Journal of Opthalmology.
Until now, you’d have to spend hundreds on one of our competitors overpriced courses to learn these methods. But not anymore…
Because we have put all of the most effective, PROVEN eye exercises into a step-by-step, easy to follow, easy to implement package called the Vision for Life program.
We assure you that the Vision for Life program must give you dramatic results in your vision. If you suffer from nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, or aging eyes — you will be stunned by the improvement and clearness of your vision.
The Vision for Life program is yours at half the normal cost for a few more days, and will make a huge difference in your vision. It’s
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Test-drive the Vision for Life program for a full six months. Even if you’re curious you may send it back – no hard feelings if you do so.

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The Sun and Your Eyes

2009-08-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

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Did you know that light from the sun can bleach the retina’s photosensitive pigments, causing temporary blindness?

Damage to your eyes from the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays is cumulative and can cause pteryguim (tissue growth on the whites of the eyes that can diminish vision) and age-related macular degeneration (deterioration of a part of the retina).

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Rebuild Your Vision: Offers eye exercises to promote better vision and eye health. See clearly fast without glasses, contacts or surgery using this amazingly simple natural vision correction method.

Birds Eye-View & You Thought "Four-Eyes" Was Insulting

2009-08-09T09:33:00.000-07:00

Birds-Eye View

If you've ever wondered why your cat's eyes seem to glow in the dark, or pondered how a hummingbird finds its way to certain nectar-filled flowers, what you are really asking is, do animals see the way we do? Though we might like to think that animals see the world with the same colors and shadows as human beings - although maybe from a different angle, perhaps high in the sky like an eagle, or under the sea like a shark - the truth is that animal vision is not like our own and differs greatly among animal species.

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Glow in the Dark

Human beings are not like tigers, or housecats for that matter, whose eyes are superbly well adapted to seeing in the dark. One reason is that cats have more rods than cones in their retinas, unlike humans, making kitty's night and motion vision superior. (Rods are the receptors that the eye uses for nighttime viewing and sudden movement; cones are used during the daytime and process color information.)

Also, cats' pupils are shaped differently than those of humans (they are elliptical rather than round), which allows for a much larger pupil size. In fact, the most notable feature of nocturnal animals is the size of their eyes. The reason for this is that large eyes can collect more ambient light. Fun fact: An owl's eyes fill over half of its skull!

As well, cats' eyes open and close much faster than do ours. And cats have a special membrane on the back of their eyes (called the tapetum lucidum, literally meaning "bright carpet") that increases the quantity of light caught by the retina. The tapetum collects and re-emits light back to the retina, giving the rods a second chance to absorb the image, thus maximizing their sensitivity to low light levels. As this light is reflected off the tapetum, the animal's eyes appear to glow.

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And You Thought "Four-Eyes" Was Insulting

How about "hundred eyes"? That's the insult you'd have to hurl at a scallop. The scallop's mantle is lined with small blue eyes. Each eye has a lens and a retina which is attached to a branch of the optic nerve. Behind the retina is a tapetum, perhaps the only thing a cat and a sea creature have in common! The hundred or so eyes work together to alert the mollusk to changes in light and motion.

One Step Beyond

When it comes to light, we humans are limited. The light we see with our eyes is really a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Bees and butterflies may be small, but they can see better than us. In fact, their range of vision extends into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, which is invisible to us with the naked eye. The leaves of the flowers they pollinate have special ultraviolet patterns which guide the insects deep into the flower to locate the plant's nectar. So, next time you admire a pretty flower, just think about all the beauty you're not seeing!

Some snakes have an extra pair of "eyes," or sensory organs, located on their foreheads that can detect infrared radiation. They can "see" the heat of a mouse from a meter away, even in conditions where our eyes would detect only pitch black.

Even those common urban pests, pigeons, have one up on us: Pigeons can see patterns of polarized light in the daytime sky which are invisible to us, providing yet another clue to the remarkable homing abilities of these birds.

Don't Judge a Creature by Its Cones

This being August, we couldn't forget to tell you about shark vision. Sharks do not possess the same variety of photoreceptors as humans. They have few retinal cones, and as a result, for years it was thought that their vision was much less acute than ours. However, though different from our eyes, shark eyes work just as well, relying on visual pigments such as rhodopsin to supply the color vision we achieve with cones.

Of course, sharks have other advantages as well: They have a sharp sense of hearing and can hear prey many miles away. They also possess a superior sense of smell and can smell even the smallest drop of blood over long distances. Once they are close to their prey, they employ special sensory pores on their heads to detect electrical fields created by prey. Getting scared yet?

Before you go out and rent Jaws, know that you are much more likely to get hit by lightning than eaten by a shark. And here's another cool shark fact: Like cats and scallops, sharks, too, have a tapetum, which gives them about 10 times the light sensitivity we have. This works well in the dark, but the light-enhancing mechanism can be a bother during daylight. So sharks have evolved a fun solution: Many species of sharks have migratory pigment cells that can close up the tapetum under bright-light conditions - basically, a pair of built-in shades!
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Macular Degeneration - You CAN Help Prevent This Condition

2009-07-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

What an amazing color! Always be proactive in your vision care!

A friend of mine has hereditary Macular Degeneration. There is also such a thing as age related macular degeneration.

It is known throughout the medical and research community that AntiOxidants and Omega 3's help prevent and manage this condition.

If you are over 40, check it out now, give yourself a heads up and keep your sight. Check out this site,

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Vision Without Glasses

2009-07-21T04:17:00.000-07:00

“Exposing The Cause of Vision Problems”

Vision problems are a learned trait. Not a developed trait.

If you've ever noticed, before a child hits their school years, most of them have perfect vision.

What happens is, children start talking to each other about far-sighted and near-sightedness. Eventually, human nature takes over and the child soon develops poor vision... Keep Reading!!

From The Father Of Eye Exercises...Imagination For Perfrection

2009-05-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

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When the imagination is perfect the mind is always perfectly relaxed, and as it is impossible to relax and imagine a letter perfectly, and at the same time strain and see it imperfectly, it follows that when one imagines that one sees a letter perfectly one actually does see it, as demonstrated by the retinoscope, no matter how great an error of refraction the eye may previously have had. The sight, therefore, may often be improved very quickly by the aid of the imagination. To use this method the patient may proceed as follows:

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Look at a letter at the distance at which it is seen best. Close and cover the eyes so as to exclude all the light, and remember it. Do this alternately until the memory is nearly equal to the sight. Next, after remembering the letter with the eyes closed and covered, and while still holding the mental picture of it, look at a blank surface a foot or more to the side of it, at the distance at which you wish to see it. Again close and cover the eyes and remember the letter, and on opening them look a little nearer to it.

Gradually reduce the distance between the point of fixation and the letter, until able to look directly at it and imagine it as well as it is remembered with the eyes closed and covered. The letter will then be seen perfectly, and other letters in its neighborhood will come out. If unable to remember the whole letter, you may be able to imagine a black period as forming part of it. If you can do this, the letter will also be seen perfectly.

The Vision Program

2009-05-24T04:44:00.000-07:00

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Orlin developed the Your Vision program and improved his vision from 20/85 to 20/25 in 30 days passing the visual acuity test given to United States Navy fighter pilots. From that day forward, he threw away his my glasses after using them for nearly 10 years. A few months later, the restriction that he was required to wear glasses while flying was removed from his FAA medical certificate. The one thing he had always been told he had no control over has been overcome.

Focusing Becomes Easier with Lutein.

2009-05-23T18:14:00.000-07:00

Eye Nutrition Fact: Focusing Becomes Easier with Lutein.

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Dr.Benjamin C. Lane, O.D., from the Nutritional Optometry Institute in New Jersey, says, Americans are getting less chromium and much more of its major antagonist, vanadium (a trace element) because of recent dietary trends to large marine fish and poultry.”

In numerous tissue testing and diet assessment studies that Dr. Lane has performed over the past twenty years he has found that “low levels of chromium are a major risk factor for increased intraocular pressure.” Chromium plays a large role in muscle contraction which is why this occurs when deficiencies are present.

And yet another negative effect of near-point activities like computer use,Dr. Lane reports that “the set of muscles we use more than ever before, are those that help focus our eyes.”He has conducted several studies that have shown that straining to focus over a period of time, does in fact increase intraocular pressure. But with proper amounts of chromium in your diet, focusing may be easier and less stressful to your eyes.

The body does not make chromium naturally, so it must be obtained through your diet. The best sources of chromium are beef, liver, eggs, chicken, oysters, wheat germ, green peppers, apples, bananas, and spinach.

If you aren't already taking it, our Ocu-Plus Formula contains 17 different nutrients (Including Lutein) that are essential to eyehealth. Learn more about it at:

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How do I stretch the muscles of the eye?

2009-05-16T08:16:00.000-07:00

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Close both eyes tightly, hold your lids shut firmly, squeezing and open them suddenly, arching your brows and stretching your face. Repeat several times.

Look up as far as possible, look down as far as possible, inhale on up, and exhale on down. The blink rapidly a dozen or so times. Look as far right as possible, look as far left as possible and blink rapidly again. Look diagonaly up to left, down to right, up to right,down to left, and blink rapidily. Attempt to look in back of yourself.

Full range of motion eye rotations. Rotate your eyes around the periphery of your vision. Always do these slowly and deliberatly. Concentrate on one eye at a time, then try both. Go around a dozen or so times then go around the other direction the same number of times. Try rotations with your eyes shut.

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2009-05-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

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Consumption of Red Meat Linked to Macular Degeneration

2009-04-29T04:21:00.000-07:00

A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggests a diet heavy in red meat may increase the risk of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia evaluated associations between red meat and chicken intake and AMD, in a cohort study of 6,734 people aged 58 to 69. Meat intake was estimated from a food frequency questionnaire; bilateral digital macular photographs were taken and evaluated for AMD. Of the group, 1,680 participants had cases of early AMD and 77 had cases of late AMD.

It was discovered that participants who ate 10 or more portions of red meat each week were nearly 50 percent more likely to experience deterioration of the retina. Participants who consumed chicken at least three times a week reduced the risk by more than 50 percent.

Study authors suggested that “different meats may differently affect AMD risk and may be a target for lifestyle modification.”

SOURCE: "Red Meat and Chicken Consumption and Its Association With Age-related Macular Degeneration", Chong, et al, American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(7):867-876.

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Herbal Remedies - Including The Eye

2009-04-13T07:54:00.000-07:00

Weak eyes are strengthened if the freshly pressed juice of the Calamus roots is brushed over the closed eyelids from time to time, the juice being left on the lids for a few minutes and rinsed off with cold water.

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See The Beautiful Color

2009-03-07T13:03:00.000-08:00

The Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) is a medium-sized bird weighing about an ounce, with a length from 15-20 cm (6-8 in). They have light underbellies and black eyes. Adult males have thin bills. They are bright blue and somewhat lighter beneath.

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Wow! Look At This Orange Color

2009-03-06T16:32:00.000-08:00

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Protecting Your Vision From The Sun

2009-03-04T05:33:00.000-08:00

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Protecting Your Vision from the Sun

By: Art GibBuying a pair of sunglasses does more than simply change your outward appearance. Sunglasses can be an easy and affordable way to protect your eyes from harmful rays of light enabling you to extend good vision for as long as possible. If you spend a lot of time in the sun playing, working or driving, a good pair of sunglasses would be a wise investment.

Types of Light produced by the Sun
Even though most people enjoy the feeling of warm sunlight on their skin, the sun does produce several kinds of light that can create chemical reactions inside your eye tissue and cause irreversible damage to your eyesight. Some of these rays are invisible while others are not.

UV Rays
Ultraviolet Radiation, which is also known as UV Rays, is the invisible light produced by the sun. Since UV Rays carry more energy than visible light, they also have more potential for damaging your eyes. There are two kinds of UV rays: UVA and UVB. UVB rays affect the cornea and the conjunctiva while UVA rays primarily affect the eye lens. This happens because different parts of the eye absorb different kinds of light.

Blue Light
Unlike UV rays, blue light is visible. One significant source of blue light is the glare reflected of snow and water. The retina, which is located at the back of the eye, is the section of your eye that is most impacted by blue light.

Choosing the Right Sunglasses
There are a lot of things to think about when you pick out a pair of sunglasses. In addition to being attractive and comfortable, sunglasses should provide the right kind of protection in the right amounts. For example, if you spend a lot of time on the water or snow covered mountains it would be wise to buy a pair of sunglasses that filter out blue light. Brown, grey and slightly green tinted lenses are especially adept at filtering out blue light. Unfortunately, nothing about price, color, or darkness can indicate how much UV protection a pair of sunglasses will provide. Consequently, consumers usually have to rely on labels for this information.

Durability is another factor to consider when selecting sunglasses. Most lenses are made of plastic because they are often stronger than glass but it is still important to go with scratch resistant material. A few seconds of wearing them can test for things like distortion and vision impairment too.

With this background knowledge you should be capable of selecting a pair of sunglasses that best meets your needs. Whether you go with cheap brands or a pair of Gucci sunglasses, find something that will make a difference to your eyes.

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Vision Care For Seniors Part 1-Be Kind To Your Eyes

2009-02-25T14:13:00.000-08:00

As we get older it is normal that our vision changes. Our eyes may find it harder to read small print, take longer to adjust from light to dark and be more sensitive to glare from sunlight or unshielded light bulbs. There's a decline in depth perception that can make it hard to judge distances, and perceiving contrasts and colours may become more difficult.

"My overall vision has improved during the 30 day course which I've just completed. Consequently, I no longer need glasses for reading and the computer..." - Steve Cooper

Sight provides much pleasure, but it's also an important part of staying safe and independent. Because our eyes do so much for us, they deserve good care and attention.
Be kind to your eyes!

Turn on the lights. Seeing better can sometimes be as easy as changing a light bulb! Putting 100 or 150-watt bulbs in your lamps can reduce eye strain (but make sure your fixture is designed for that wattage!). Brighter lighting in stairways can help prevent falls.

Don't smoke. Studies show that tobacco smoking is an important risk factor in the early onset of an eye disease called age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This disease causes serious and permanent loss of central vision.

Reduce glare. There are many ways of reducing glare, including good lampshades, glare shields on computer monitors, and sunglasses. Wear sunglasses that provide 99 to 100% UV-A and UV-B protection when you go outside during the day. They will protect you from UV rays that can harm your eyes even on a cloudy day.

Protect yourself. Many people suffer vision loss because of accidents in the home. Here are some ways to prevent damage to your eyes:

* put a grease shield over frying foods
* make sure that spray cans and bottle nozzles are pointed away from you
* wear safety glasses in the workshop and when opening and using chemical products like ammonia
* when using bungee cords, be careful of recoil

Eat your carrots. Studies show that a daily dose of the vitamins and minerals found in melons, citrus, carrots, spinach and kale may help slow the progress of age-related eye diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma or cataracts.

Get an eye examination. Many changes to vision happen so slowly that you may not realize you have a problem. If you are over 45 years of age, the most important thing you can do to protect your vision is to have an eye exam on a regular basis. Finding problems early may make the difference between maintaining good vision and vision loss.

Love is in the Eyes

2009-02-13T06:57:00.000-08:00

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It's Valentine Month. Read the article here about your eyes and love.

It's candle light dinner and dancing time. A nice glass of red wine, maybe in front of the fire place...and then? (no, not that:), read the article and find out!

New Year's Resolutions

2009-01-16T07:13:00.000-08:00

New Year's Resolutions It's that time of year again. You vow to lose 10 pounds, clean out your closet, balance your checkbook, and actually go to the gym, as opposed to just thinking about it. You'll read more, watch TV less; take up sailing or knitting or golfing or whatever "ing" you've always wanted to try but never made time for; forgo your daily latte to save for that Caribbean cruise. Ah, New Year's resolutions!

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We've written this article in hopes of inspiring you to dust off the eye-patch, grab the string-beads, and get back to (or start for that matter) improving your vision with the Rebuild Your Vision Program. Just 25 minutes a day is all it takes. As Webster's puts it, a resolution is not just a promise you make to yourself but also "the process or capability of making distinguishable the individual parts of an object, closely adjacent optical images, or sources of light" - in other words, reducing things to a simpler form, so you can see them more clearly. Because when you see your goals clearly, you can more easily achieve them.
Need further incentives?

Improve your vision and you improve your life. A 2003 Australian study found that "after the age of 40, the amount of eye disease, visual impairment, or blindness increases threefold with each decade. Even a moderate level of visual impairment - that is, less than 6/12 (20/40) - has a significant impact on the ability of people to enjoy healthy aging."

Save hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on eye care. Last year, Americans shelled out $15.4 billion for eyewear, according to the nonprofit Vision Council of America. All About Vision notes, "Expect to pay about a dollar a day for continuous wear contacts," and "by October 2003 the overall average price of LASIK had risen to $1,710."

So what are you waiting for? Start now with this list of multilevel goals:

*Goal 1: Prevent further deterioration of your vision and reduce your dependency on glasses or contacts. This can be done in the first few days of the program using our simple techniques.

*Goal 2: Improve your vision to a desired level, including not using your glasses at all, which is a very reasonable expectation for many.

*Goal 3: Maintain your visual improvement by doing the exercises between 20 and 40 minutes (or 1 to 2 days) per week for the first few months.

*Goal 4: Perform a session once or twice per month on an as- required basis to keep your vision stable.

Kick-start 2009 with the Rebuild Your Vision Program. It offers clear goals and dramatic vision improvement. While you'll still have to save for that cruise, the turquoise water, lush green foliage, and azure skies of the Caribbean will never have looked so good.

Omega 3 And Your Eyes

2009-01-15T05:16:00.000-08:00

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating one portion of omega-3 fatty acid-rich fish per week may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by over 50 percent.

2,275 people over 65 years of age participated in the EUREYE Study. They were given eye exams and completed a food frequency questionnaire.

Researchers found that oily fish was consumed less than once per week by 64% of the study population, once per week by 25%, and twice per week or more by 12%.

Those eating oily fish at least once per week had a 50% reduced risk of a type of AMD called neovascular AMD (NV-AMD), while those eating oily fish at least twice per week had a 58% reduced risk.

Good choices for fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids are cold water oily fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies and sardines.

Read other research showing the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids for healthy vision

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SOURCE: Augood, et al; Oily fish consumption, dietary docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid intakes, and associations with neovascular age-related macular degeneration; Am. J. Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 88, No. 2, 398-406, August 2008.

Worried About Statins And Macular Degeneration?

2009-01-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

Statin Drugs and Macular Degeneration

Contrary to the expectations of some scientists, cholesterol-lowering 'statin' drugs (such as Lipitor or Zocor) do not appear to stave off age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the eye. In fact, a review of data from the Cardiovascular Health Study suggests that taking a statin may slightly increase the risk of age-related macular degeneration.

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