Comments on: Glasses are only Eye-Crutches (Nov, 1934) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Close minded http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-1079618 Close minded Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:12:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/#comment-1079618 The American Optometric Association has records of 1,000 Army & Navy air cadets who improved their previous poor eye sight by exercise enough to get into flight school. See Time article http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884800,00.html The 1998 10 year National Eye Institute study has many prominent participants involved that found certain vitamins improve eye health. The participants include Emory University, John Hopkins Hospital, University of Wisconsin - Madison, the CDC and many others. They have there place but it is not just about glasses and surgery. The American Optometric Association has records of 1,000 Army & Navy air cadets who improved their previous poor eye sight by exercise enough to get into flight school. See Time article http://www.time.com/time/magaz.....00,00.html

The 1998 10 year National Eye Institute study has many prominent participants involved that found certain vitamins improve eye health. The participants include Emory University, John Hopkins Hospital, University of Wisconsin – Madison, the CDC and many others. They have there place but it is not just about glasses and surgery.

]]> By: Village Idiot http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-236526 Village Idiot Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:08:39 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/#comment-236526 Quote: "...acclaimed by many thousands who have tested it and found it of untold benefit." Apparently they could only find two of the "many" thousands to tell of the "benefit." And it's funny to see the scroogle ad for LASIK below the article, right next to ads selling a method for strengthening the eyes and correcting eye troubles that at first glance appears to be the very product being sold by this 1934 ad. Even with the existence of LASIK and RK and others, if you go to an opthamology convention you'll notice... lots of doctors wearing glasses! Hmmm.... Quote: “…acclaimed by many thousands who have tested it and found it of untold benefit.”

Apparently they could only find two of the “many” thousands to tell of the “benefit.”

And it’s funny to see the scroogle ad for LASIK below the article, right next to ads selling a method for strengthening the eyes and correcting eye troubles that at first glance appears to be the very product being sold by this 1934 ad. Even with the existence of LASIK and RK and others, if you go to an opthamology convention you’ll notice… lots of doctors wearing glasses! Hmmm….

]]> By: docca http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/comment-page-1/#comment-234111 docca Sat, 09 Jun 2007 13:34:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/06/08/glasses-are-only-eye-crutches-anyway/#comment-234111 "Bernarr" MacFadden was the founder of Physical Culture magazine and apparently quite a popular figure back then. According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, he was also the inventor of the penis pump: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9399284/Bernarr-Macfadden Wikipedia says he started a lot of fast-dieting crazes at the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernarr_Macfadden and there are still a lot of fans, it appears: http://www.bernarrmacfadden.com His publishing companies (and some of the magazines) still exist, albeit on other hands. About the whole "throw your glasses away", I once met a guy that preached that. He had something like 12 degrees of myopia, and one day just thought he didn't need the glasses. I can assure you he still stumbles on a lot of coffee tables around, despite what he believes... :) “Bernarr” MacFadden was the founder of Physical Culture magazine and apparently quite a popular figure back then.

According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, he was also the inventor of the penis pump:

http://www.britannica.com/eb/a.....-Macfadden

Wikipedia says he started a lot of fast-dieting crazes at the time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernarr_Macfadden

and there are still a lot of fans, it appears:

http://www.bernarrmacfadden.com

His publishing companies (and some of the magazines) still exist, albeit on other hands.

About the whole “throw your glasses away”, I once met a guy that preached that. He had something like 12 degrees of myopia, and one day just thought he didn’t need the glasses. I can assure you he still stumbles on a lot of coffee tables around, despite what he believes… :)

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