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While we can’t live without the sun, our eyes can’t survive too much exposure on it. Our eyes are one of the most sensitive parts of our body and diverse environmental factors could cause it not to perform well, or even destroy it.
There are many ways to protect one’s eyes from the harmful rays of the sun. One of which is wearing sunglasses. Sunglasses are not only for fashion. There is a much higher purpose of it which is to protect our eyes. Since the sun releases out a lot of ultraviolet rays, there is much danger for our eyes getting defunct or having ocular problems.
Some of the short-term and long-term ocular problems caused by excessive eye exposure to the sun are:
- photokeratitis
- snow blindness
- cataracts
- pterygium
- eye cancer
Now who would want to get eye cancer or cataracts? Medical experts often advise everyone the importance of wearing sunglasses to protect the eyes from UV rays.
That’s it. That’s the main point. Wear sunglasses to protect your eyes. All regrets would come when you start losing your clear eye sight because of sun damage. So aside from your regular accessories of jewelries and watches, always bring sunglasses to enjoy a healthy day under the radiance of the sun.
Here are some resources you might want to read:
- Q&A on Sunglasses and UV Light
- Sunglasses & the Health Effects of Solar UV Radiation
- Prevent Eye Damage (pdf)
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Posted September 4th, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Hehehe, your ultra unique contact lenses
sus bry, si junrey gani mamalit jd daw xa og sun glasses ky hibi daw ang sun. haahahahhaha
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Posted September 4th, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Hibi kaayo Guads. Init na kaau ang kalibutan. Nya busdakan dayon ug uwan kalit.
Guess I can put sunglasses on top of my eyeglasses huh?
I just miss wearing sunglasses.
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Posted September 4th, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I also have eye glasses but I can still manage though without it so I could still wear sunglasses!
Why not use contact lenses?
come to think of it, i never owned a pair of sunglasses. eyeglasses ra, nya wah pa jui grado. wahahaha. aw naa d.i ku pagbata. bwahahaha.
i don’t think sunglasses suit me. or do they? nyahahaha. adik. 
aw about protection man diay nohh. uhh, wah japon. samok sa mata. mahahaha. 
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Nice. I will try to find one that looks good on me though. I have this with sunglasses kasi.. Wala lang jud bagay sa ako..
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hala andami palang sakit na makukuha sa sobrang exposure sa araw… kailangan na talagang bumili ng mga yan…
diba my wordpress ka.
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thanks for this post. actually, i’m reminded to take care of my eyes. keep blogging bryan karl….
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