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How to keep your eyes healthy
Our most important sensory organ needs to be protected and cared for. There are many things to consider in this respect.
How to keep your eyes healthy
How do our eyes smile?
Whether we are wearing spectacles or not, our eyes are a significant factor in how we communicate. Here are our top 3 tips for spectacles wearers to achieve smiling eyes.
Laughing is good for us – because a really good laugh uses as many as 100 muscles in our body and face. Eye contact and smiling eyes also significantly facilitate our communication with other people. But how can we get our eyes looking their best? How can eyegl... more
Does reading in poor light damage your eyes?
It's a popular myth that almost everyone has heard: reading in poor light damages your eyes. However, the latest studies show that this isn't true at all.
Winter is probably the best time to get round to reading a good book, especially by candlelight or the soft light of a bedside lamp. Children even like to hide under the covers with a pocket lamp. However, the joy of burying oneself in a book is often tempered ... more
Tags: eyes, better vision, reading glasses, darkness
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Are carrots good for your eyes?
From a young age, we are told that carrots are good for our eyes. Unfortunately, this is only true to an extent.
Carrots are good for the eyes – or have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses to prove otherwise? Not only is this comparison not very funny, it hasn't got a leg to stand on. And yet this health myth has been around for generations. The following is true, howe... more
Tags: eye, precaution, nutrition, health
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A workout for your eyes
Our eyes work hard every day. With a couple of simple sight exercises, you can relax your eyes and refresh your vision
The modern lifestyle places great demands on our eyes. If you work with a computer, for example, they have to adapt to different contrasts and level of brightness up to 30 000 times a day. The figures for driving and sports activities are similar. It's no wonde... more
The history of eyeglasses
The first visual aid was invented around 700 years ago
These days, it is a matter of course: When your vision deteriorates and your eyes grow weaker, you go to your optometrist or ophthalmologist and have a pair of spectacles fitted. But this was not always the case: It wasn’t until the 13th century that people ... more
Tags: spectacles, history, spectacle lens, visual aid, optics, eye
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The perfect lenses for optimum vision
A vision test will reveal the visual defects that a person has. Based on these results, the optometrist is in a position to prescribe the optimum lenses that will enable the patient to regain sharp vision
[More than 39 million Germans suffer from ametropia and begin to wear spectacles at age 16 and up (Source: Allensbach-Brillenstudie 2008)]. In general, they cannot see well without visual aids. The problem can be quickly identified with a vision test. ... more
What to do if you have vision challenges
Do you have 20/20 vision or are you near sighted, far sighted? Do you have age-related vision impairments? A vision test will provide all the answers.
Human eyes can differentiate between several thousand colours, assess the speed of a flying tennis ball and recognize letters as well as images in less than a fraction of a second. However, all of this works perfectly only if your eyes are absolutely healthy. Mill... more
Excellent vision despite eye problems
Our eyes are our most important sources of perception – consequently, any eye disease needs instant attention
Our eyes perform precision work all the time.They focus on objects that are close-up, zoom in on those off at ... more
Get the best protection for your eyes
Very sensitive and completely irreplaceable: Hazards to the eye are diverse and can entail disastrous consequences
Contact Lenses or Spectacles?
Both are a good choice. It’s really a matter of taste – and a matter of what’s good for your eyes
Whether you’re kissing someone, playing ball sports or riding a horse: The frames of eyeglasses do tend to get in the way sometimes. Your lenses may get all fogged up, which can spoil a romantic moment. For this reason, many near and far-sighted people opt for con... more
Our eyes – our windows to the world
Our eyes function like a camera in which numerous parts work together perfectly. This is good news, because vision is our most important sense
For most people, it’s a matter of course: You open your eyes and you see the world. When the alarm clock goes off, you see the red numbers, the colour of the bedspread and your pyjamas, the green leaves on the tree outside the window and the ceiling, which could p... more
Tags: eye, optic nerve, retina, vision, sensory organ
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