This article information was written by Stephanie Watson and medical information excerpts are from Michael Smith MD.

Some of us have Bad Habits example nail biting, grinding our teeth, snoring, wearing contacts all night with day wear contacts. Let's break this down a bit more, nail biting can cause infections, grinding your teeth wear down of your teeth, contact wearing irradiated or torn corneas.

Overexposure to sun, you use sunscreen for skin right? at least most of the time. Overexposure to sun increases the risk of getting macular degeneration or cataracts.

Breaking Habits: Wear wrap around sun glasses with UV blocking materials to help protect your eyes.

Poor Diets: Eating that fat laden burger & fries, excessive Fast Food menu choices, Drive through is your how you eat, these add up to a larger waistline, obesity, Diabetes, Heart problems, these conditions contribute to damage to the blood vessels in the retina's of the eyes,a condition called Retinopathy.

Screen Strain: Computer work, or gaming for endless hours adds strains and fatigue of our eye muscles Eye muscles are used when we focus so tired eye muscles will leave all of Us with dry, burning eyes at the end of a long day of screen time.

Break the Habit:
Give your eyes time outs. Follow the 20-20-20 rule, look away from the screen and focus on something else 20 feet away for 20 seconds, this will help relive your eye strain and help with the conditions from it.

I hope this information has helped and if you need more information on how to prevent eye strains please check with your ophthalmologist and your MD. these are only a few of the things you need to do but remember Eating right and eating Heart & Body Healthy is again the Best way to help yourself stay healthy, active and feed your beautiful body each and everyday what it needs to stay that way!

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