Of all the five senses - Sight (Eyes), Hearing (Ears), Smell (Nose). Taste (Tongue) and Touch (Skin,) there is no debate that the eyes is the most important sense.

According to research, the eyes utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain. That is right - the eyes monopolize almost 2 out of all connections to the brain. The eyes contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge. In fact, there are studies to show that our brains decline in old age because our eyes decline first.

The Eyes ... Most complex
The eyes are the most complex organ you posses except for you’re your brain. In fact, they are composed of more than two million working parts.

The Eyes ... Most input
They can process 36,000 bits of information each hour, In a normal life span, your eyes will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you. Close your eyes and you cut UP to 70% of the input to the brain. That is why; you close your eyes to meditate!

The Eves ... Most powerful
Under the right conditions, your eyes, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles.

The Eyes ... Never resting
The eyes are the only part of the human body that can functional 100% ability at any moment, day or night, without rest. Your eyelids need rest, the external muscles of your eyes need rest, the lubrication of your eyes requires replenishment, but your eyes\ themselves "never" need rest. But please rest them!

The Eves ... Most effective
The eyes can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body. In fact, in men, the eyes alone can elicit a sexual arousal.

The Eyes ... Most trusted
Your brain trusts the eyes more than any other sense organ.

• Your eyes are composed of mare than 2 million working parts
• We all have microscopic creatures lurking in our eyelashes
• The average person blinks 12 times per minute - about
• 10.000 blinking an average day
• Colorblind people do see color but only certain colors such as red, green and some blues. Also color blindness is more common in males
• Only 1/6th of your eyeball is exposed to the outside world
• The muscles that move the eye are \he strongest in the body
• Your eyes begin to develop 2 weeks after conception
• Your eyelashes work like windshields to take away the tears that are formed to protect your eyes from drying out.
• Your eyes will never wear out.

The most common eye problems are divided into 2 categories:

• Vision correction
• Eye condition

• Aging eyes (Presbyopia) - As people age, they often begin to have difficulty focusing their eyes for reading or close work
• Astigmatism - it is an eye condition where the cornea is warped, meaning it curves more in one direction than the other distorting or blurring vision for objects at any distance.
• Far sightedness (Hyperopia) - Hyperopia, or far-sightedness, is the ability to clearly see objects at a distance but not those up close.
• Near sightedness (Myopia) - Myopia, or neat sightedness, is the ability to clearly see objects up close but not those at a distance. (CNIB. 1996-2006)

• Dry eyes - dry eye is the result of not being able to produce enough tears to keep the eye comfortable.
• Red eye (Conjunctivitis) - conjunctivitis, better known as red eye, is the medical term that describes an inflammation of the conjunctiva - the thin membrane that covers the white of your eyes. (CNIB. 1996-2006)

Cataran is a clouding of the lens in the eye that affects vision. Most cataracts are related to aging. Cataracts are very common in alder people. By age 80, more than half of all Americans either have a cataract ar have had a cataract surgery.

A cataract can occur in either or both eyes. However it cannot spread from one eye to the other. (US National Institute of Health, National Eye Institute. 2006)

Glaucoma is the second common cause of permanent blindness in the United States and the most common cause of blindness among blacks.

It is characterized by optic atrophy (the wasting of tissue, organ or body parts) and vision loss, resulting from intraocular (inside the eye) pressure that is too high to allow formal function of the optic nerve. (Am Fam Physician 1995; 52 (8): 2289-98. 2303-4)

As you age, you are increasingly at risk to develop the world Number One cause of low vision or impaired vision known as Macular Degeneration. It is the leading cause of blind spots, in the central vision, which is the area you need to read words, recognize faces and see details.

Macular Degeneration can cause irreversible and blinding eye disease by attacking the center of the retina. which is the eye structure needed to see details such as reading words or recognizing faces. And the risk continues increase, as you get older.

If you've got a family history of the disease, then you might be as much as ten times more likely to get it, There are 2 major type of macular degeneration.

2 major types of macular degeneration are:

• Dry macular degeneration
• Wet macular degeneration

Diabetic retinopathy is an important cause of vision problems in people with diabetes. This is a change in the tiny blood vessels that feed the retina in the early stages, the blood vessels weaken and leak fluid or tiny amounts of blood.

This causes swelling of the retina. At this stage you may notice that your vision has blurred or changed. When retinopathy is more advanced, the blood vessels became blocked or closed and parts of the retina die.

New abnormal blood vessels grow to replace the old ones. The new vessels are fragile and often bleed into the eye blocking your vision. Then scar tissue forms and it shrinks and tears the retina and makes it bleed or even detach from the back of your eye.

This can lead to severe visual loss or blindness. The longer you have diabetes, the higher your risk of having diabetic retinopathy.

The 7 common things are:

• Using eye drops
• Using computer
• Wearing glasses and/ or contact lens.
• Lack of proper nutrients
• Squinting or straining to see
• Not exercising your eyes
• Reading
• Aging

Research by the Hong Kong Association of Private Eye Surgeons (HKAPES) warned that frequent use of eye-drops could damage eyes and might even cause complete loss of vision.

If eye drops are used frequently - say, over six times a day - preservatives' residues could accumulate and cause chronic irritation and eye infection of the cornea and even cause permanent loss of vision.

The Amencan Optometric Association's has listed 14 Symptoms of Computer Vision Syndrome as follows:

- Tired eyes
- eyestrain
- periodic blurred near vision
- occasional blurred distance vision
- headache
- dry eyes
- slowness in changing the focus of eyes
- burning eyes
- contact lens discomfort
- changes in color perception
- glare sensitivity
- excessive tearing
- sore eyes
- red eyes

Spectacles can make vision worse. A person with Myopia (short-sightness) of 20/70 who puts on glasses or contact lens giving him a vision of 20/20 may find that in a week’s time his unaided vision has declined to 20/200.

We have the testimony of Dr. Sidler-Huguenin, of Zurich (Archiv. f. Augenh, vol. lxxix. 1915, translated in Arch. Ophth, vol. xlv. NO. 6, 1916) that of the thousands of myopes treated by him the majority grew steadily worse, in spite of all the skill he could apply to the fining of glasses contact lens for them. (www.iblindness.org)

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Bilberry is also known as Vaccinium myrillus, The common name is bog bilberries, blueberries (variety of), and whortleberries. Bilberry is a perennial ornamental shrub that is commonly found in various climates in damp woodlands and moorlands

In the United States they are known as huckleberries, and there are aver 100 species with similar names and fruit throughout the Europe, Asia and North America. The English call them whortleberries. The Scots know them as blaeberries.

It was shown in early studies to improve dark adaptation in people with poor night vision. (Jayle GE. Ann Ocul, 1965, 198:556-62 Belleoud L. et al Rev Med Aeionaot Spatiale 1966; 18:3-7)

A clinical study n Russia shows that dietary supplementation with bilberry extract prevent macular degeneration and cataract. (Fursova Arh. Adv Gerontol 2005: 1676-79)

Bilberry has been used as a medicinal herb since the 16th century. Bilberries are high in flavanoids known as Anthocyanosides. Anthocyanosides speed the regeneration of rhodopsin, the purple pigment that is used by the rods of the eye for night vision. (Alferi R.. et. al. CR Soc Bid 1964:15:2338)

Supplementation with bilberry has been shown in early studies to improve dark adaptation in people with poor night vision. (Jayle. GE Ann Ocul, 1965. 198:556-62 Belleoud L. et. al. Rev Med Aeronaut Spatiale 1966; 18:%7)

In World War II, during night bombing missions, British Royal Air Force pilots reportedly experienced an improvement in night vision after eating bilberry jam.

In the mid 1960s, reference to these observations eventually led to be first laboratory and later clinical studies on the effects of bilberry on the eyes and vascular systems.

Schepens Eye Research Institute and Department of Ophthalmology of Harvard Medical School had established the role of dietary carotenoids. Human retina selectively accumulates only two yellow and orange pigments: lutein and zeaxanthin.

Their concentrations ere so high in the macula, (the retina region responsible for fine visual activities) that the carotenoids are visible as dark yellow spots called the macular pigments.

It contains naturally high levels of lutein and zeaxanthin. These two compounds are found in the macula of the eyes.

Epidemiological studies done in UK in 2003 showed lutein and zeaxanthin prevent macular degeneration (CR Gale et 2003,44: 2461.2465)

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