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Protective eyewear for runners
Although running is not a visually challenging sport, it does help to have clear comfortable vision. It is important to protect your eyes from stress and fatigue as well as from possible injury due to flying insects and objects, dust, dirt and the sun’s rays.
The ultraviolet (UV) rays…
How healthy are your eyes?
While many eye problems are not preventable (for instance, needing glasses as you get older may be inevitable!), it is possible to reduce your risk of developing a number of conditions that can lead to loss of sight – in fact over 75 per cent of vision loss is…
Diabetes and your eyes
About seven per cent of the Australians 25 years and over have either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. This number rises dramatically as we age. Almost one quarter of all people over the age of 75 have diabetes.
Within 15 years of diagnosis, most of these people (more…