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Griffin Daily News Thursday ,August2s,l977
Misconceptions
about the eye
Though a Gallup poll indi
cated Americans fear blind
ness more than any disabili
ty other than cancer, many
people still have miscon
ceptions about eye health
and care
According to the Ameri
can Association of Ophthal
mology, some common eye
misconceptions are:
• People who wear glasses
should have them checked
each year to see if a new
prescription is needed
True or False?
Children who have a
problem learning to read
are likely to have an eye
coordination problem
and can be helped with
special exercises. True or
False?
"All controlled studies
have proven this notion
Sitting too close to a tele
vision set, reading in dim
light, holding a book too
close when reading, or
wearing glasses which
are too strong may per
manently damage your
eyes. True or False?
"False," says Dr Lichter
"The way light enters the
eye is, to many people, a
mysterious event. There
fore, there is a belief that
if light doesn't enter the
eye properly something
bad will happen Sitting
too close to a television
set, reading in dim light,
holding a book too close,
or wearing someone
else's glasses, all evoke a
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False According to Dr
Paul R Lichter, a Univer
sity of Michigan ophthal
mologist, "Glasses have
nothing to do with the
health of the eyes Hav
ing them checked each
year is somewhat like go
ing to the shoe store each
year to see if you need
new shoes So long as a
person is pleased with
the vision they have with
their present glasses,
there is little reason to
check for a change"
false," says Dr Lichter.
"Unfortunately, desper
ate parents often waste
many hundreds of dollars
on such exercise pro
grams when remedial
reading and tutoring may
be the best approach,"
he adds.
feeling of danger in the
public's view."
"In fact," says Dr.
Lichter, " the eye deals
with light regardless of
how it enters the eye.
Whether the light is dim,
or the rays are bent in
one way or another the
eye will still perform its
function Nothing un
healthy can result from
this.
Speaking of glasses
which are 'too strong' is
simply a misnomer What
patients usually mean is
that their glasses are un
comfortable. This dis
comfort may be annoy
ing, but it will not cause
harm to the eyes."
Film award
NEW YORK (AP) - Para
mount Pictures has announced
the presentation of the David di
Donatello Award for best pro
ducer of the year to Robert
Evans, an American, for the
film “Marathon Man.”
The award was recently giv
en to Evans at the Greek The
ater in Taormina, Sicily. The
awards were established in 1955
by the Italian Association of
Producers and Distributors for
International Films.
Economy
is going
strong
By NEA/London Economitt Newt Service
WASHINGTON - (LENS)
— The slide of the dollar on
the foreign exchanges con
tinues.
But the fall has not par
ticularly perturbed the Carter
administration; floating rates
are devised exactly for such
adjustments and this is no
precursor of a summer dollar
crisis.
The dollar’s fall is a reflec
tion of the United States'
trade deficit, estimated to be
a record $25 billion this year.
This is in large part due to the
surprisingly healthy perfor
mance of the domestic
economy, while the rest of the
world stagnates.
Although the growth in the
country’s GNP for the second
quarter of the year has not yet
been released, it is expected
to match the 6.9 per cent an
nual growth rate clocked up in
the first quarter. This is con
siderably faster than had been
thought possible six months
ago. Conventional opinion still
has it that in the second half of
the year the growth rate will
slacken off markedly.
There is little sign of that
happening yet. In June the
level of industrial output rose
by 0.7 per cent, which was
more than expected, and
although much of this was the
result of swelling inventories
the fact that there was sub
stantial growth in such basic
industries as cars, iron and
steel suggests that the slow
down, which undoubtedly will
come, is still some way off.
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still favored by the nation’s
teen-age girls, the results of a
ring designing competition in
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Six of the 12 winning designs
in a contest conducted by the
Diamond Information Center,
and almost half of all the en
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usually centered in a slim band
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young designers, high school
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