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Yoga Eye Exercises – Yoga for Eye Health

According to a 2008 study from Yoga Journal, 6.9% of U.S. adults — or 15.8 million people — practice yoga, and that number has nearly doubled in the last five years. “But I don’t practice yoga!” we hear you saying. Our response: As a member of the Rebuild Your Vision program, you’re aware that regular [...]

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Are Smart Phones Smart for Your Vision?

It started with phone calls, led to texting and calendars and games, and now it seems, whether you’re on a Blackberry, iPhone, Google Android, or Windows Mobile, your smart phone can do anything – from setting your oven timer to mapping your hiking trial via GPS to editing your digital photos. You can even download [...]

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Women’s Unique Vision Issues

According to the National Eye Institute, twice as many women as men are diagnosed with vision-threatening diseases each year. Across the globe, women are more likely to suffer blindness and vision loss. Of the common eye diseases, dry eye syndrome is two to three times more common in women than in men at any age [...]

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All About Eye Floaters

Floaters are: a. Wisps of cloud moving across the sky b. Air-filled mattresses for summertime fun on the lake c. Insects that have accidentally fallen into your lemonade d. None of the above If you chose “d,” then you are correct. If you’ve ever noticed small specks or shadowy shapes moving in your field of [...]

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7 Healthy Habits for a New Year of Vision

Google “healthy habits” and you get about 8 million pages. Googling “bad habits,” though, yields a rich trove of over 18 million pages, on subjects ranging from bankruptcy to thumb-sucking to watching too much TV. We’re so used to seeing the words “bad” and “habit” together — like Simon & Garfunkel, peanut butter and jelly, Shakespeare and [...]

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The 12 Ways of Christmas Vision

The French have their Bûche de Noël, a chocolate-buttercream-frosted sponge cake in the shape of a yule log. U.S. Southerners consume black-eyed peas on New Year’s day for luck in the coming year. Austrians and Bavarians enjoy their intricately molded springerle cookies during the holidays, while Mexicans prepare Bacalao a la Vizcaina, a dish of [...]

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The Gift of Sight

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust Of course, Proust, a novelist, was speaking metaphorically. But what if you could really give the gift of sight this holiday season? With the Rebuild Your Vision Program, you can. And the best part is, unlike glasses, [...]

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