{"id":17,"date":"2024-07-16T03:54:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2024-07-16T03:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T03:54:33","slug":"in-singapore-were-growing-a-generation-of-near-sighted-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/in-singapore-were-growing-a-generation-of-near-sighted-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"In Singapore, we&#8217;re growing a generation of near-sighted vampires."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What does a fear of sunlight, terrible parental pressure and overreliance on education do for our kids? Turns them into vampires, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a fascinating article, and of special relevance to us in Singapore given our similar urban lifestyles and education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan thinks it has found the cause and solution to myopia\u2026 and it&#8217;s sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently sunlight helps to produce dopamine, which regulates the growth of the eyeball when young. So, encouraging more outdoor play for kids can slow or even stop myopia progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia-epidemic\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia-epidemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Views: 8<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a fear of sunlight, terrible parental pressure and overreliance on education do for our kids? Turns them into vampires, of course. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-not-nonsense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/sun.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}