{"id":38660,"date":"2026-05-21T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=38660"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:52:04","slug":"article70977912-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=38660","title":{"rendered":"The myopia pandemic: how changing childhoods are blurring our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children today spend far less time outdoors in natural daylight and much more time indoors, either at school, tuition classes, or in front of screens. In genetically susceptible children, these environmental changes are contributing to the rapidly increasing prevalence of short-sightedness<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/the-myopia-pandemic-how-changing-childhoods-are-blurring-our-future\/article70977912.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children today spend far less time outdoors in natural daylight and much more time indoors, either at school, tuition classes, or in front of screens. In genetically susceptible children, these environmental changes are contributing to the rapidly increasing prevalence of short-sightedness Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[27226,13009,27225,2471,27224,2106],"class_list":["post-38660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-blurring","tag-changing","tag-childhoods","tag-future","tag-myopia","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38662,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38660\/revisions\/38662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}