Your screen time

[Iroh]

Wikipedia defines screen time as the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a smartphone, computer, television or a video game console.

After years of willfully keeping away from the steering wheel, I finally decided to go in and get a license to drive a vehicle.
Time for a vision test and I’m like, this would be real easy. I was so wrong. I had always thought I’ve got perfect eye sight as I could see quite clearly from a distance.

I couldn’t pick out the small figures and alphabets that was displayed as they became blurry as I tried to focus on it. After lots of awkward smiles and pleading with my eyes, I passed the vision test with the minimum score.
I recently went in to get my eyes checked and it’s likely I would need a prescription glasses.

I read quite a lot and have slowly been deviating from paperback to reading on the kindle over the years. Been advised to cut back on my screen time but I had thought as I’m not old, my eyesight would remain hawk eyed. I was wrong.

I would like to advise y’all to cut back on your screen time if you can. Put down your devices and take a walk or something.

Our eyes grow weak with age but they also get weaker at a much faster pace when continuously strained.
There are loads of eye defects that you may just be able to prevent With a healthy diet. These eye defects creep in slowly and would go unnoticed until it blossoms and becomes difficult to cure or manage.

We could try and include fishes like salmon, sardines; nuts and legumes  like walnuts, cashews( fruits like oranges and grapefruits; eggs and a whole lot of water in our diet.
I’ve learnt water does a lot of things in the body apart from regulation of our body temperature.

We all need to take better care of our eyes as well as cutting back on some screen time.

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[decodx]

Yeah. Prolonged exposure to screens is nothing new and there's still a lot of debate as to what extent it affects our health. But even if the dangers aren't as serious as they once were believed to be, great eye strain is still no fun, so we definitely shouldn't take it lightly. So if you notice that your eyes are acting up, let them relax for a little while. Your eyes will thank you later. When in doubt, take a break from your screen and rest your fatigued peepers. Cut back on eye strain. Add some Omega 3s to your diet, get some exercise and sunlight, and you'll be good as new! 

[bitmover]

Avoid blue lights. To do so,  keep your night mode turned on in windows, it will reduce value light and intensive the red light.
All modern phones also have this feature

Alternatively,  you can download f.lux software
https://justgetflux.com/

Warmer colors tend to keep us more calm, making it easier and better to sleep.

https://preventblindness.org/blue-light-and-your-eyes/

What is Blue Light?

Sunlight is made up of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet light. When combined, it becomes the white light we see. Each of these has a different energy and wavelength. Rays on the red end have longer wavelengths and less energy. On the other end, blue rays have shorter wavelengths and more energy. Light that looks white can have a large blue component, which can expose the eye to a higher amount of wavelength from the blue end of the spectrum.

A graphic detailling light on the visible spectrum

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How Does Blue Light Affect the Eyes?

Almost all visible blue light passes through the cornea and lens and reaches the retina. This light may affect vision and could prematurely age the eyes.

[Dunamisx]

Life has been made simplified for us to enjoy the best out of it but due to our human low esteem to information and education and we have failed to make utilization of the things around us in providing a solution to some of our problems faced in daily live, vision normally works with taking a good and balanced diet without a need of correcting it, but the environment we live in has been polluted by many human activities that has now rendered ot unsafe, same way lack of proper and adequate nutrition causes poor vision, this same people also spend much time on the screen to fulfill some daily obligated tasks on the screen, yet they never learn to optimize the effect by using lenses or reducing the brightness or sometimes switching to dark mode.

[Mr.right85]

Avoid blue lights. To do so,  keep your night mode turned on in windows, it will reduce value light and intensive the red light.
All modern phones also have this feature

Yeah, its denoted with an eye on most device. Not the best display on a device for sure as it comes with some dirty brown colouration but it's does it's bit. Sadly, phones are hardly the only devices there is that we are exposed to daily. Our TV sets for instance, working systems, etc. A yet go notice them on these devices or perhaps developers weren't putting much in consideration but in all, phones is where most of us gets exposed a lot due to how attached the device is always with us.

Like OP rightly stated, it's never a problem until it blossoms. Its the same with the climate change we've got today. It was largely of no concern at a time and even now, so many would continue to ignore but, for the few that do believe, we could only try and hope for the best.
It's just the way of the world.

[harapan]

Avoid blue lights. To do so,  keep your night mode turned on in windows, it will reduce value light and intensive the red light.
All modern phones also have this feature

Alternatively,  you can download f.lux software
https://justgetflux.com/

Warmer colors tend to keep us more calm, making it easier and better to sleep.

https://preventblindness.org/blue-light-and-your-eyes/

What is Blue Light?

Sunlight is made up of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet light. When combined, it becomes the white light we see. Each of these has a different energy and wavelength. Rays on the red end have longer wavelengths and less energy. On the other end, blue rays have shorter wavelengths and more energy. Light that looks white can have a large blue component, which can expose the eye to a higher amount of wavelength from the blue end of the spectrum.

A graphic detailling light on the visible spectrum

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How Does Blue Light Affect the Eyes?

Almost all visible blue light passes through the cornea and lens and reaches the retina. This light may affect vision and could prematurely age the eyes.

Thank You for that as it will help alot here who have no idea about it really.
I read one time about the introduction of dark mode in Meta I do not know if Theymos in anyway saw that idea, I think that will make especially to those approximately get to 60's in thr forum as thier retina and lens might not cope well with too much of the white lights.

[DeathAngel]

My screen time is a little embarrassing to be honest. I sometimes clock up 7-8 hours per day of phone screen time. I should find something more constructive to do with my time. It’s tough when you’re so engrossed in online life & charts.

Sometimes it’s good to just leave your phone & all devices at home. Fresh air is good, going for walks & things like that are good for you.

[mich]

I definitely have noticed my vision getting worse over the last years as I’ve increased my screen time.  I wear glasses in front of the computer most of the day because I’m staring at screens a lot for my job and that takes the pressure off of them.
After work, I typically wear contacts because it its easier for when I am at the gym and looks nicer when I’m out in my opinion.