Many of us take our eyes for granted. We do not realize how important eyesight is to our daily lives. During high school, I remember seeing students in some class fumbling around blindfolded. It did not occur to me then that they are trying to understand what it is like to be blind.

This experiment is worth doing to experience what life would be like without our eyesight. I decided to spend one hour doing my daily task blindfolded.

I set the timer for one hour and tied a cloth around my eyes. I got up and walked toward the kitchen. For some reason, things I instinctively knew to be at a certain place seemed to disappear and reappear where it stubbed my toe, grazed my knee, or bumped my head. I was lucky not to break a cup as I poured myself a some water, which overflowed and I scrambled clumsily to find a cloth to mop it up.

I wanted to prepare and clean so vegetables, but thought twice about working with a knife blindfolded. How does a blind person know if the vegetable is clean anyways? I watched TV but that was no fun without the image. I sat at my desk to start doing some work, and instinctively groped to find the computer’s on switch. What in the world was I going to do after the computer booted up? Yeah, that stumped me!

I felt around for a pen and paper, and started writing.Thoughts and ideas were pouring out. This is easy! When the alarm rang, I was surprise to see that my writing was illegible. It was like chicken scratches on paper and somehow I masterfully manage to write over the same lines on several occasions.

Doing things without eyesight is restrictive. Things I normally do without a second thought is almost impossible blindfolded. I am horribly uncoordinated without my eyesight! I have to salute every blind person who is actively living life with this incredible challenge. I tried it in my own house where know the terrain and yet I could barely function. How a blind person do daily tasks and maneuver the dangerous streets is nothing less than spectacular!

If you can not fathom how important your eyesight is, try blindfolding yourself and go about your daily tasks. It will give you a humbling perspective on how difficult life is without your eyesight.

You should not wait to improve nearsightedness! You need to start learning and practicing today. There will never be a right time to start — just whether you want to do it or not.

When I was working eight to twelve hours a day, I did not have time to care about my body and eyes. I didn’t understand that I needed to take care of my body correctly and no one advised me to do it. After some time, I was overweight and developed backaches, knee pains, headaches, foul breath, smelly feet, high nearsightedness and irritability. My quality of life went from good to poor. I had to spend years to learn, change and overcome these annoying problems. I had to learn the hard way that it is important to take care of the body.

Our eyes are important to our quality of life. My advice is to learn and take action to care for the eyes now. Eye disease is spreading rapidly throughout the world because we do not know how to use our eyes properly.

Roughly one in three or four Americans over 40 develop some type of blinding eye disease. The importance of this number may not hit because you never expect health problems to happen to you. It always happens to someone else. When your number is “called” and you face the reality of having a disease, then you panic. You scramble for help, and get hit with complications and high medical bills. Don’t get caught up in this cycle of disease and cure. Prevent so you can have good eyesight to enjoy your life. Prevention does not guarantee that you will not develop a disease. It, however, drastically lower your risk so that you may avoid a major disease.

I can only steer you in the right direction — the next step is in your hands. Start preventing now!

News (Jan 7, 2011): US says too much fluoride causing splotchy teeth. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to lower the fluoride in drinking water because Americans are getting too much fluoride which is causing splotches in children’s teeth.

The whole idea behind fluoridation (adding of fluoride to our water supply) was to prevent tooth decay. The problem is that the fluoride being used to “improve” our water comes from sodium fluorosilicate, a hazardous waste byproduct.

“The chemicals used to fluoridate water in the US are not pharmaceutical grade. Instead, they come from the wet scrubbing systems of the superphosphate fertilizer industry. These chemicals (90% of which are sodium fluorosilicate and fluorosilicic acid), are classified hazardous wastes contaminated with various impurities. Recent testing by the National Sanitation Foundation suggest that the levels of arsenic in these chemicals are relatively high (up to 1.6 ppb after dilution into public water) and of potential concern (NSF 2000 and Wang 2000).” Quoted from: 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation

Opponents of fluoridation claims that it is a ruse by aluminum, steel and fertilizer industries to find a cheap way to dispose of their hazardous waste. If they dump it into the river, it is a pollution violation. Under the disguise of fluoridation, releasing the waste into municipal water is good for health. Not only have they found a way to get rid of their waste, they are being paid to do it. Wow! Did we just get slapped twice! More at: The Fluoride Debate

It doesn’t make sense to continue with fluoridation since recent studies show that too much fluoride can lead to dental fluorisis, skeletal fluorisis, accumulation in the body (brain, pineal gland, etc.) altering behaviors and IQ, inhibit enzymes, damage DNA, and increase risk of bone, liver and mouth cancer. They need to stop poisoning our waters. If they want to combat cavities, they need to tackle the root of the problem. The real problem is explained convincingly by Dr. Weston Price who showed that proper nutrition from whole unprocessed food allows the body to maintain healthy gum, teeth and bone. You can read more about in Food Fresh and Whole for Body Health and at Weston A. Price Foundation.

You may want to be careful with products containing fluoride, the risk may be higher than the claimed benefits.

I cut my finger the other day as I was chopping some vegetables for dinner. Ouch! I normally don’t bother with minor cuts, but it was deep enough to draw blood and hurted every time I move the finger or brush against the cut. I washed away the blood and searched for a band-aid. Wouldn’t you know it, I ran out of band-aid. There was medical tape available, so I squeeze the cut skin together and tape it. Interestingly, the pain from the cut disappeared. The tape held the cut together and kept it dry even as I chopped and washed the vegetables. Guess what, there was no pain even when I bump against it.

The next day, I changed the tape and saw that most of the cut has mended. I taped it again to let it do its thing. After two days, the cut healed and there was no sign of the injury.

Normally, a cut would continue to hurt for a few days, a scab would form, and I get the pleasure of peeling away the crusty scab when it starts to fall. With this method, there is no pain even as I continue with my chores, there is no scabbing (I’ll miss tearing the scabs from the skin ), and it heals in about two days.

For minor cuts, it is a great way to dress the cut and allow the skin work its healing magic. When I get cut again, I’m definitely grabbing the medical tape. Try it out the next time you get a minor cut.

News: A bidder paid 32.49 million yen (nearly $396,000 usd) for a 754-pound (342-kilogram) bluefin tuna at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. That is about $525 per pound including the head. Ouch!

Major scientific studies show that with the current trend there will be no more fish by 2050. Who knows, we may have to pay $500 dollars for a taste of wild seafood in the future.

I can’t imagine an ocean without sea creatures. It would be a great loss for us and the generations that follows. With the population at almost 6.9 billion, it is going to be difficult to stop over-taking from the ocean. Maybe a miracle!

We can each take responsibility for the health of the earth and ocean. Caring for something outside of yourself can really help each of us develop into a well rounded person and improve our quality of life. Please read 100 Ways to Make a Difference and do what you can. A little change from 6.9 billion person may make a miracle come true.

Further Reading:

• Tokyo fish market records highest bid on tuna
• ‘Only 50 years left’ for sea fish
• China, Japan, US top list of world seafood consumers: study
• Ten ways you can help protect biodiversity in 2010

I have just finished my first book – Stop Eyestrain Now! I developed a simple and effective method to overcome my moderately high nearsightedness, but more importantly, found a reason why nearsightedness leads to blinding eye diseases. Read about it at Prevent Serious Problems.

You may not be aware of it but your eyesight is essential to your quality of life. You can test it for yourself by simply walking and working blindfolded for a few hours. I believe every myopic or nearsighted person must read and practice this method to use their eyes correctly and prevent eye diseases from happening to them. Therefore, I am making this work available FREE for everyone to read and download in order to help as many people as possible.

Please Read, Practice, and Prevent. You can download the ebook by submitting your name and email found in the column to the right.

Help me spread this knowledge to every nearsighted person you know so they can have the information they need to prevent eye diseases in their future. Eyesight is very important, don’t blindly allow yourself or your love ones to misuse the eyes any longer — Read, Practice, and Prevent now.