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05-04-12, 11:35 AM
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Massive rise in Asian eye damage
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Every single one of my buddies in china has myopia, whereas on Canada I barely see anyone with myopia
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05-04-12, 08:09 PM
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Ace of the Deep
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That explains why the JSDF pilot eyesight standards seem to be slowly slipping...
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05-04-12, 10:03 PM
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Well I have it, not really a bad condition except for glasses being bloody expensive.
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05-05-12, 12:49 AM
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I read in some war book that the Japanese high white rice diet contributed to them needing glasses a lot. I think it was Shots Fired In Anger by John George. But I looked up Myopia and there is nothing to correlate that statement.
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05-05-12, 01:06 AM
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According to the Wikipedia article on Myopia it is on the rise in much of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia |
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05-05-12, 05:57 AM
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