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Want to protect your kids' eyes from myopia? Get them to play outside
NPR's health desk on the childhood myopia surge: eye doctors increasingly prescribe the outdoors — daylight and distance viewing during the years eyes are still growing. The prescription isn't a product; it's a place: outside, looking far.
The Look Up read
Mainstream pediatrics advice and the Look Up practice are converging on the same verb: get them outside, looking at the distance.
The Look Up view
Careful wording, consistent evidence: eye doctors increasingly prescribe the outdoors for growing eyes — daylight and distance, the cheapest prescription there is.
☀ Use it — Put 'outside before screens' on the family calendar this weekend — daylight is the intervention the eye doctors named.
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