Here is a book that supports optometrists who advocate prevention (at
the threshold) with the plus:
http://www.i-see.org/otis_brown/
The professionals who are now supporting effective prevention are:

[...]
  Editor's Note.—The writer of this article, a young man of twenty,
was wearing, when first seen, the following glasses, prescribed three
years earlier: both eyes, concave 6.50 D. S. combined with concave

Hi Mike, Dick, Wm Stacy, Calli, everyone....
Hope you are all enjoying summer.
I'm reading about lens implants for cataracts.
I saw the aspheric lens implants, and had to search the web to  learn

Any suggestion for a quick remedy for tired eyes and a stinging
sensation caused by water (actually "hard" water) getting into the
eyes?

[...]
A man of fourty-four who had worn glasses since the age of twenty was
first seen on October 8, 1917, when he was suffering, not only from
very imperfect sight, but from headache and discomfort. He was wearing

Reference:  Majority-opinion Post by Majority-opinion "Jan"
The opinion I express, that a negative refractive STATE of the eye can
be prevented, is not exclusively my judgment.
Since this is an open site, you should have the benifit of the second-

[...]
Seeking a Myopia Cure
By L. Mehler
When the Lusitania was sunk I knew that the United States was going to

This is one of the newsgroups I really would like to continue to use,
Unfortunately, my ISP, ATT.Yahoo, with domain name sbcglobal, has
decided to terminate USENET service in about two weeks,
I would like to know what news servers are used by participants of this

Subject: The Scientific Basis of Soon’s Graph.
Re:  Ophthalmologist D. I. Flitcroft’s Analytic Paper of the
Fundamental Eye's Dynamic Behavior
Soon’s graphs are simplification and clarification of developing

Dear Bill,
As you know, it is never "ONE" experiment that will change the mind of
an engineer. He must review the objective facts concerning the dynamic
behavior of the eye -- to make HIS CHOICE or JUDGMENT.  Science is

[...]
When the eye with normal sight looks at the large letters on the
Snellen test card, at any distance from twenty feet to six inches or
less, it sees, at the inner and outer edges and in the openings of the

Dear Mike Tyner
Subject:  Thanks for confirming Soon's graph:
http://myopiafree.i-see.org/soonicansee/index.html
That a wise and motivated person can get his refractive STATE to

[...]
Being anxious to know what my colleagues think of Better Eyesight, I
lately sent notes to a number of them asking for their opinion. The
following replies were so interesting that I think the readers of the

The Phoropter, and supporting staff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhjOfp42uEA&feature=related
Enjoy,

Dear Bill,
When the refractive STATES of the eye are correctly measured, they
show the "time-constant" response of a physiological control system.
The Flitcroft paper defined this response in a number of ways.