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re: UV risk and camera cases



At 1:05 PM 1/30/96, Dr. George A. Themelis wrote: 

>>Yes! There is a definite link between cumulative UV exposure & certain forms of blindness in later life... Wear those sunglasses! 

>You know Jim, I grew up in Greece, the land of sunshine... As a kid I spent countless hours in the beach sun tanning. Sun glasses were never very popular. And yet, I don't know anyone that had problem with his eyes... 

>It's either because of the olive oil, all they all died from skin cancer at a young age... ;)


Probably the latter :-)
It's the sort of thing that tends to come along fairly late in life, & as with anything health-related it's a bit of a crap-shoot. Lots of UV exposure increases your odds of having very poor or no vision when you get up around 70 or so. 

-Jim C.


------------------------------------------------ Jim Crowell
U.C. Berkeley School of Optometry
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