Bright Sunlight Helps Prevent Myopia in Children, New Study Finds

The authors found that in addition to duration of time outside, the intensity of the sunlight helped prevent myopic shift in children.
Bright Sunlight Helps Prevent Myopia in Children, New Study Finds
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Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
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A new study has found that spending as little as 15 minutes a day outside in bright sunlight could help prevent myopia in children.

The study was published on Aug. 13 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). It was conducted as part of the Shanghai Time Outside to Reduce Myopia trial—a school-based cluster randomized clinical trial that followed school children in Shanghai for two years between October 2016 and December 2018.
Emma Suttie
Emma Suttie
D.Ac, AP
Emma is an acupuncture physician and has written extensively about health for multiple publications over the past decade. She is now a health reporter for The Epoch Times, covering Eastern medicine, nutrition, trauma, and lifestyle medicine.
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