Here you go. A very long read though.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cxo.12845

I’ll try to find the paper on sunlight exposure.

Here you go:

https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

so in summary though should i educate my grandchildren outdoors to prevent myopia, and will that be effective ¿

SCIENCE said:

so in summary though should i educate my grandchildren outdoors to prevent myopia, and will that be effective ¿

Ask Maria Montessori?

buffy said:

Here you go:

https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

> East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted.

Sixty years ago, all the eye doctors had been killed by Mao.

buffy said:

Here you go:

https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

> East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted.

Sixty years ago, all the eye doctors in China had been killed by Mao.

And not many people needed distance glasses for driving throughout SE Asia sixty years ago because nobody drove. And even if they did drive, it’s odds on that they didn’t need to pass an eye test back then.