Dear Prevention-minded friends,

Subject:  Remarks by Dr. Young on the refractive
STATE of the natural eye, whether plus or minus.

Re: Paradigm shift -- learn to RESPECT the
fundamental eye as a DYNAMIC system -- in the
first place.

Here is an assessment by Dr. Young of the effect of 12
years of school on the refractive STATES of our natural eyes.

Refractive STATE of from zero to +3 diopters are natural
for the fundamental eye in the "open".

Young reports negative refractive STATES when
the kids are kept in school for 12 years.

There eyes DID NOT BECOME "DEFECTIVE".  Only
a primitive and simplistic understanding of
the natural eye would JUMP to that CONCLUSION.

Here are Dr. Young's scientific facts.  Draw
your own conclusions.

Otis

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"The Development of Myopia"

By Francis Young

THE NON-READING PARENTS

"...What we found in this situation (Eskimos who did scant
reading, and lived a "hunting" life) and again we have not
completed the analysis of all our data, is that out of 130
parents, only two individuals show myopia, one with -0.25 diopters
and one with -1.5 diopters. All the rest of the parents show
refractive errors (STATES OSB) between 0.0 and +3 diopters with
the majority of them exceeding +1.5 diopters.

In our way of thinking, these people demonstrate a type of
refractive condition which has been determined by heredity and
which is achieved as early as the second year of life.

Thus, we are dealing with a population has effectively not
been exposed to a near-work environment..."

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THE 12 YEAR SCHOOL CHILDREN

"...When we look at the cildren of these none-myopic parents,
we find a completely different picture. Fully 60% of the school
children examined showed a measurable amount of myopia with groups
averaging as much as 2 or more diopters of myopia within different
age levels. We found that of 53 individuals, who were between 21
and 25 years of age, 88% of them are myopic. There is a beginning
of myopia at about 10 years of age and a steady increase in the
proportions of the children showing myopia up to the group in the
21 to 25 year old range.

Since both the children and the parents are still using, for
at least part of the day, the basic Eskimo diet, but for one meal
a day are eating essentially and American type of diet as supplied
by the school of supplier in there employment situation, we can
probably rule out any effects of diet.

If the diet change is ruled out, then the major difference
between the parents and the children is the reading continuum..."

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SUBJECT: The nature of the refractive STATES of primates and
man "in the wild".

that normal refractive STATE of the natural eye is positive,
running from zero to +3 diopters. In my opinion, it is not
reasonable to refer to that natural eye with normal refractive
STATES as having an "error" of any sort at all -- although
the obsolete theory of a long time ago insists that
exclusively a refractive STATE of zero is normal, and
all other eyes have terrible postive errors.

Best,

Otis