Your eyes are amazing! Among all the body parts it makes you feel really living and experience how beautiful life is. Did you know that your eyes are composed of more than 2 million working parts? The muscles in your eyes are the most active muscle in your body. With a healthy pair of eyes you can see a candle light 14 miles away and distinguish 10 million different colors. And of course, your eyes are the doorways to receiving signals that will be sent to your brain to understand images, scenery and everything you are looking at.
Amazing facts about your eyes:
1. Your eye color is determined by the level of melanin in your iris. If you have less melanin, it allows the collagen to go through and you'll have blue eyes. However, that's only genetics. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, if you got one, you share a common ancestor with every other blue-eyed person in the world.
2. Your eyes contain 107 million cells that are sensitive to light. However, 100 million cells in your eyes allow you to see in the dark. It is not true that you'll be blind if you read a book with a dim light. It will be hard because your eyes will have to adjust as it is not used to low amount of light. However, the truth is bright lights can make you feel tired just like the dim ones.
3. On average, you blink 17 times per minute, 14280 times in a 14 hour day and 5.2 million times a year. You blink in almost every act like reading and makes you blink even more when you are talking. It lasts 100-150 milliseconds making it the fastest muscle in your body.
4. Sometime your eyes and brain don't agree and it will result in optical illusions.
1. Your eye color is determined by the level of melanin in your iris. If you have less melanin, it allows the collagen to go through and you'll have blue eyes. However, that's only genetics. Blue eyes are a recessive trait, if you got one, you share a common ancestor with every other blue-eyed person in the world.
2. Your eyes contain 107 million cells that are sensitive to light. However, 100 million cells in your eyes allow you to see in the dark. It is not true that you'll be blind if you read a book with a dim light. It will be hard because your eyes will have to adjust as it is not used to low amount of light. However, the truth is bright lights can make you feel tired just like the dim ones.
3. On average, you blink 17 times per minute, 14280 times in a 14 hour day and 5.2 million times a year. You blink in almost every act like reading and makes you blink even more when you are talking. It lasts 100-150 milliseconds making it the fastest muscle in your body.
4. Sometime your eyes and brain don't agree and it will result in optical illusions.
5. Babies are born without the ability to see colors. The average eye size of babies is about 18mm in diameter while it is 24 mm with the adult ones. However, eye sizes can vary from person to person because the size and shape of the eyes are also affected by genetics.
6. A person can have eyes of two different colors. It is a condition called Heterochromia. It happens when there are two chromosomes that make the color for the right and left eye.
7. Your eyes heal fast from abrasions but deeper scratches and abrasions can take longer to heal. Though your eye typically works to heal on its own, the process would be slower if you keep on excessively drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking, and looking at the sun directly. Aging also contributes to some eye problems.
The first 6 years of life are the most crucial to long term eye health. An eye issue that is left untreated before the age of 6 can lead to loss./reduction of vision. If you are a parent, you should watch out for your children when they are squinting/rubbing their eyes, finding difficulty/reluctance in reading and sitting too close to tv with attention difficulties. If such circumstances are often, you have to consult an eye care specialist immediately.
Your eyes are amazing. You have to take care of it. Don't wait until you get old and eye problems are not anymore curable.
6. A person can have eyes of two different colors. It is a condition called Heterochromia. It happens when there are two chromosomes that make the color for the right and left eye.
7. Your eyes heal fast from abrasions but deeper scratches and abrasions can take longer to heal. Though your eye typically works to heal on its own, the process would be slower if you keep on excessively drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking, and looking at the sun directly. Aging also contributes to some eye problems.
The first 6 years of life are the most crucial to long term eye health. An eye issue that is left untreated before the age of 6 can lead to loss./reduction of vision. If you are a parent, you should watch out for your children when they are squinting/rubbing their eyes, finding difficulty/reluctance in reading and sitting too close to tv with attention difficulties. If such circumstances are often, you have to consult an eye care specialist immediately.
Your eyes are amazing. You have to take care of it. Don't wait until you get old and eye problems are not anymore curable.