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From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Reading in bad light
Message-ID: <1360@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 08:27:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 08:27:43 1985
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In article <1528@trwrba.UUCP>, suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre) writes:
> This business about vision being damaged by reading in poor light
> has always seemed like an old wive's tale to me.  If you try to 

> is harmful.  The lack of light on the retina appears not to be
> harmful, otherwise we'd be in real trouble while we were sleeping!
> Maurice
> {decvax,sdcrdcf,hplabs,ucbvax}!trwrb!suhre

My understanding agrees with your intuition, that light level is not
a problem.  Much more eye strain is likely to be caused by the distance
at which you hold your reading matter.  The closer the worse, because of
the strain on the muscles in the lens of your eye to maintain focus.

Rich Goldschmidt     {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax,allegra,seismo} !cbosgd!rbg
AT&T Bell Labs	     ARPA:  cbosgd!rbg@seismo or cbosgd!rbg@ucbvax