Re: Breastfeeding may prevent nearsightedness?

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> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C160278%2C00.html

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> Researchers in Singapore say babies who are breastfed may be less

> likely to become nearsighted children.

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> That was true even after controlling for nearsightedness risk

factors,

> say Yap-Seng Chong, MD, and colleagues. They report their findings in

> The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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well, i wish i could say it's true in our case. i was never

breastfed. i'm 50 and almost never wear my glasses. dh was not

breastfed either and one of his eyes is 20-20. he wears glasses maybe

half the time.

our son is 14. he was breastfed til he was 4. he's been wearing

glasses for a few years now; wears them most of the time.

dh and i never wore glasses til we were in our 40's.

laura in nj

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> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C160278%2C00.html

>

> Researchers in Singapore say babies who are breastfed may be less

> likely to become nearsighted children.

>

> That was true even after controlling for nearsightedness risk

factors,

> say Yap-Seng Chong, MD, and colleagues. They report their findings in

> The Journal of the American Medical Association.

> <snip>

> www.en.com/users/jaquick

>

>

This is curious. My 8-year-old daughter was breastfed until she was

over three. At the age of six, however, she developed myopia. I am

short-sighted myself, but I developed it at a much later age (14) and

was notmuch breastfed. And my diet and lifestyle at the time was

probably worst than hers.

JC

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> our son is 14. he was breastfed til he was 4. he's been wearing

> glasses for a few years now; wears them most of the time.

>

This is just so obvious! The breastfed children overstress their eyes

trying to look at the beautiful source of their life's nutrition. Too much

exercise too early. Overtraining.

Who wants to look at a stupid bottle?

Ron

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Haha—so true, Ron.

To add to the anecdotal evidence, I was breastfed until 10 months (at which

point, my mother said I " pushed her away, " which I find hard to believe) and I'm

quite nearsighted. I think a more promising study was the one about three years

ago where they implicated excessive carbohydrate consumption while developing as

a significant factor in myopia. Also, of course, the fact that no one teaches us

how to treat our eyes right (e.g. don't read/compute for hours on end without

breaks; use reading glasses even if you don't need them to see up close, they

will help prevent myopia).

Tom

RBJR wrote:

>>our son is 14. he was breastfed til he was 4. he's been wearing

>>glasses for a few years now; wears them most of the time.

>>

>

>

> This is just so obvious! The breastfed children overstress their eyes

> trying to look at the beautiful source of their life's nutrition. Too much

> exercise too early. Overtraining.

>

> Who wants to look at a stupid bottle?

>

> Ron

>

[Guest guest]

> > our son is 14. he was breastfed til he was 4. he's been wearing

> > glasses for a few years now; wears them most of the time.

> >

>

> This is just so obvious! The breastfed children overstress their eyes

> trying to look at the beautiful source of their life's nutrition.

Too much

> exercise too early. Overtraining.

>

> Who wants to look at a stupid bottle?

>

> Ron

ron, very funny.

really, tho, they're teaching kids to read so early nowadays, i read

somewhere that if kids start reading before a certain age it does

something to their eyes, and they need glasses.

i have no idea if this is really true.

but i'm sure our son learned to read at an earlier age than either dh

or myself.

laura in nj

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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:15:23 -0400

" RBJR " <rbjr@...> wrote:

> > our son is 14. he was breastfed til he was 4. he's been wearing

> > glasses for a few years now; wears them most of the time.

> >

>

> This is just so obvious! The breastfed children overstress their eyes

> trying to look at the beautiful source of their life's nutrition. Too much

> exercise too early. Overtraining.

>

> Who wants to look at a stupid bottle?

>

> Ron

Overtraining? Speak for yourself.

LOL!

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> --- In , Quick <jaq@p...>

wrote:

> > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C160278%2C00.html

> >

> > Researchers in Singapore say babies who are breastfed may be less

> > likely to become nearsighted children.

> >

> > That was true even after controlling for nearsightedness risk

> factors,

> > say Yap-Seng Chong, MD, and colleagues. They report their

findings in

> > The Journal of the American Medical Association.

> > <snip>

> > www.en.com/users/jaquick

> >

> >

> well, i wish i could say it's true in our case. i was never

> breastfed. i'm 50 and almost never wear my glasses. dh was not

> breastfed either and one of his eyes is 20-20. he wears glasses

maybe

> half the time.

I wish it were true in my case too, for the opposite reason:

I was 100% breastfed and have terrible vision, as do my parents also

breastfed. My brothers were also breastfed, and although they wear

glasses their eyesight is not as bad as mine or my parents'.

I have read a few times in New Scientist that a diet high in refined

carbs can lead to myopia.

Jo

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Most vision problems are a result of bad habits of using the eyes. We

speak of our vision " deteriorating, " but in most cases, our eyeballs

or parts of them are just distorted through tension. In our society we

don't tend to look out at the far point very much, and that is the

state in which our eyes are relaxed. Wearing glasses all the time

compounds the problems because we look through the lenses using the

same bad habits that we use without them, and eventually pull things

out of focus again.

Mainstream thinking considers that eyes can not get better, that

vision cannot get better. That magically, they are the only part or

function of the human body that can never get better or heal under any

circumstances! It is a very strictly and passionately held view in the

mainstream eye-related professions. From their point of view, ANY

account of vision improving in the least is balderdash or imagined,

and often responded to with hostility.

You can most likely do a lot for your own eyesight, no matter the

present condition, by learning about how you use vision and how the

eyes work. If you have children, I would say it is imperative to look

into how our society is structured into making them myopic, etc. from

an early age. I highly recommend starting with the following book:

Take Off Your Glasses and See : A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your

Eyesight and Insight

by Liberman

Here is the link to Amazon info on the book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517886049/qid=1119792411/sr=2-1/ref=pd_b\

bs_b_2_1/002-1144735-4538449

Best,

Vesna