Remember hearing, don't read in the dark or you'll go blind?
Well for generations this was actually believed to be true.
Mothers would get mad if they ever caught their children reading
under the covers with a flashlight, such things were believed to
be damaging to your eyes. Researchers questioned does reading in
dim light ruin your eyes? One principle researchers used is does
correlation equal causation? A few kids that have bad eyesight
have admitted they have read in the dark a few times, but there
are even more kids who always read in the dark and no signs of
eye problems. Doctors shared that reading in the dark, for long
periods of times, can make you eye muscles work harder then they
usually do. When eye muscles are working hard it can cause a
person to have headaches and itchy dry eyes. These problems are
common and go away on their own. They proved that reading in the
dark will have no bad effect on you eyesight and that it is an
old myth. They also proved there is no correlation between
children who