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Flex 125 Spending Account Funds: Time to Use it Or Lose It
5 Scenarios To Avoid Next Year By Using Your Flex 125 Funds Today Why Your Flex Savings Account is a Tax Savings Superhero for Eyewear It’s the Holiday Season! Everywhere you look, there are decorations, lights, and people in good spirits! What a wonderful time...
10 Ways to Safeguard Diabetic Eyes
Protect Your Vision: 10 Essential Tips to Safeguard Diabetic Eyes It’s a fact: Living with diabetes means that you are more likely to experience vision problems. But here’s another fact: You can help prevent diabetic eye disease or slow its progression by...
Is There “Yoga for the Eyes?”
My Wife’s Experience with Presbyopia My wife, like many of us, is a certain age north of 40 and recently realized that her near vision is becoming blurry, much to her dismay. Blurred near vision causes problems with reading, threading a needle, texting and other...
Five Features of Children’s Sunwear that are Musts
In addition to having lenses that block 100 percent of the sun's UVA and UVB rays and a significant amount of potentially harmful blue light, children's sunglasses should also have these features: Impact-resistant lenses.The best lenses for children's sunglasses are...
National Sunglasses Week Sale! Up to 50% off select high-quality, UV-protective sunglasses, including prescription lenses – June 29, 30 and July 1 only
At Ridgefield Vision Center, every day is Sunglasses Day. However, the Vision Council has proclaimed June 27 as National Sunglasses Day, a reminder of how important it is to wear UV-protective eyewear. We think protecting your eyesight is so important that we’re...
Summer can be Dangerous for Adults over 60
Most of us look forward to summer but hot weather can be dangerous, particularly to adults over 60. A University of Chicago Medical Center study found that 40% of heat-related fatalities in the U.S. were among people over 65. There are several reasons why boomers and...
A Flag Day Optical Illusion
It’s the 100th anniversary of Flag Day, celebrated each June 14 since the 1880s but not officially recognized as a holiday until President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it such on May 30, 1916. The American flag is a well-known icon worldwide, and is often depicted in...
Do children really need sunglasses?
According to most eye doctors and researchers, the answer is an emphatic "yes." Because children tend to spend more time outdoors than most adults, experts say nearly half of a person's lifetime exposure to ultraviolet radiation can take place by age 18. ...