... issue ... Ed> Yes, I see that. I read this newsgroup often. I have a high interest in vision care. ... stabilize. From ... improvement around ... 9-11 ...
Dear Second-opinion friends, What I suggest is that our environment has a PROFOUND effect on the refractive STATE of the natural eye. For this, and a...
Jake was the first second-opinion optometrist. He advocated PREVENTION with the plus. This site is NOT anti-optometrist -- EVER. It is PRO your own long-term...
Subject: The PREVENTIVE second-opinion I am not a "Bates" person as such. I would say that I am a PREVENTIVE person, i.e., preventing ENTRY into myopia (a...
Jake1961.txt From: Health Glasses for Children and Adults Reprint from Part Three, Book Five of SPECTACLE HOBBY (A Story with a Purpose) by Jacob Raphaelson,...
Subject: The meaning of the work "accommodation" It had been argued from 1865 that the eye, in changing it total power, did NOT change its length. This is...
... Did you bother to read the full text (free PDF download) of the article? If you did, you would have noted that the axial length change contributed less...
Dear Judy, Subject: The retina's ability to control both prameters -- as a function of accommodation. Alex has developed an accurate analysis that the retina...
Dear Second-opinion friends, Subject: Over-all concept of accommodation. The retina controls the over-all power of the eye. (Where power-length are converted,...
Dear Second-opinion (preventive) friends. ... been conducted. ... are involved in these discussions about the dynamic behavior of the natural eye. ... is the...
Subject: Further clarification of the -1/2 diotper per year. This was the AVERAGE of the straight-minus group. This -1/2 diopter per year (from the study),...
... So calling an axial length change amounting to about 0.5% of the total power change "not significant" is biased, unscientific and ignores the facts. What...
Dear Judy, You are making your own judgment call about the dynamic behavior of the fundmental eye. I do not agree with your judgment. You can keep on insisting...
Dear Second-opinion friends, I was asked to show the source of the statment that the AVERAGE down rate for school children (already negative) was -1/2 diopter...
Dear Judy, Good -- then you agree with the Bates-Helmholtz concept of whole-eye change of refractive power-length. As controled by micro-blur sensed at the...
... There is no Bates-Helmholtz concept. Bates denied the action of the lens and ascribed all accommodation to axial length changed caused by extra ocular...
Dear Judy, I am sorry you do not understand the concept that the retina controls the total power (length-power) of the eye. In fact Alex has submitted...
Dear Plus-prevention friends, Subject: Dr. Francis Young's successful bifocal study. (The eye was prevented from going down FURTHER by a plus.) I have been...
... Please reread my posts and the literature. I have not disagreed that length changes. What I have pointed out is that the length change,as actually...
Dear Second-opinion friends, Judy is a fine person. She is doing the best she can in her office. But when she tells me WHAT SCIENCE and WHAT FACTS I must...
Dear second-opinion friends, There are two words I will not use. One is "cure", and the other is eye-length (that is impossible to measure with any accuracy --...
Dear Judy, Subject: Lens/Length change over time -- of -1/2 diopter per year. Judy> Please reread my posts and the literature. Otis> I have. I know your...
... This is new low for you -- you actually provide a quote from me this time to back up what you claim I said -- BUT THE QUOTE DOES NOT BACK IT UP! ... Judy...
... snip ... ??????????????????????????? You were discussing models of accommodation and now you are discussing emmetropization??????????????????? Helmholtz...
Here is a friend, judging the article about the effect of life-style chaning the refractive STATE of the eye from plus to negative -- as a natural process. ...
Here is my friend's commentary on the "red herring" of "nutrition". ========================= Otis Of course the people who want to describe myopia as a result...
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