The eye is one of the most delicate and essential organs of the human body, as it senses light and transfers signals through optic nerve to the brain. And eye care is better than eye cure.

The importance of our eyes can best be understood by living one day of our life with our eyes closed. To understand the value of sight, one should imagine a life devoid of eyesight.

Optometry is a field that is going strong with increasing number of professionals being trained who eventually commence practice. There is a definite increase in the demand for quality optometric treatment due in part to some of the following factors: • Frequent and abrupt changes in lifestyle-making it hectic • Unhealthy diets • Long hours in front of computers and television sets • Harmful rays of the sun.

Did you know that more than half of the entire populations are shortsighted? There is an ever increasing group of people who rely on reading glasses to see clearly. This isn’t really a serious short coming by any means.

Good photography, whether it’s using digital or conventional film, relies on a number of basic things - a camera body, a lens and you! All three of these things can be top quality or just plain average.

Reading glasses, as their name would suggest, aid you in reading or performing close by jobs, when you regularly start to feel a strain in doing so. When you need to hold a book at arms length to be able to read it comfortably or when working on a computer for long hours gives you a headache, it may be time to get yourself a pair of reading glasses.

Do you already need to use spectacles for activities such as reading? At some point in life, reading newspapers and books becomes difficult for some people. While reading glasses may be an option for some, they may not quite work for you in case you already wear glasses for distance vision.

Are you a health freak? Do you go for weekly and monthly checkups to your doctor? Do you ever get your eyes checked? If you don’t, this will help you understand how important eye exams are.

Vision problems can be of many different types. There is the usual blurriness of vision and then there are halos, floaters, blind spots, etc. Vision becomes blurred when the eye loses its power to focus on small details in objects due to various reasons.

When we go out cycling, our eyes are exposed to above normal airflow. Irrespective of whether we cycle in competitions or for plain fun, our eyes are subjected to more than normal airflow.