Guest guest Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Hi Debbie, If your eyes seems hypersensitive and you are habituated to wearing sunglasses, best to wean off them. :Your eyes, i.e. your retina, will need time to readjust to different levels of ambient light. Think of it as going back into the sunshine after you haven't been for awhile, you'd take it gradually. Same idea exactly. Don't let your eyes get to the point where they feel irritated from the sunlight, that's too much for that day. Also, easier to reacclimate using earlier/later sun at first, then toward midday, which is brightest and most intense sunlight. For your eyes watering, the washcloth is a nice idea. You might try varying it, try cool and also try fairly warm, lie down and place it over your eyes, then a dry cloth over it to hold in the heat a bit longer. See whether that may be a bit soothing at times. And of course, make sure you are consuming lots of water!!! And NO salt!! (if you can Best, Elchanan Gypsi at www.aromaticwings.com [aromatic_wings] Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:56 AM rawfood RE: [Raw Food] Herbs ( " crude oil " example) Glad I could make someone happy... I have got the eye crying thing going on at this time... geesh I hate this.... looks like I am crying and it feels awful.. and drying to the eyse and skin around it... seems I am constantly in the bathroom cooling my eyes with water on a washcloth.. this makes my eyes so sensative to light. oh the sunglasses part were for the light bulb moment thing... but good to know... now to just keep my mind from over riding my mouth here... well maybe i should let it over ride it but with good information instead of bad... but grrrrrr sure gets frustrating when one doesn't listen to the other...my " gemini twins " sure do fight each other .... I sit on the sidelines shaking my head like " get a grip please! " " INFO @ Vibrant Life " <VLinfo wrote:YES!!! You've really got it, Gypsi!! I cannot imagine myself wearing a bigger smile! Oh, and just for the record, sunglasses will damage your eyes, don't use them any more than you'd use sunscreen. Always connect directly with Nature, and Nature will connect directly with you. Sounds simple, and it is. Best to all, Elchanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Also be mindful that the purest way to acquire Vitamin D is directly through the circle around your eyes in addition to your skin (depending on how much clothing you have on). Good point on what time of day and season you're exposed to the sun, mid-day through 2 or 3 p.m. can be harmful. It's been said that from Spring through the end of Summer the average person can absorb and store up enough Vit. D to last for up to 4 months. I'll reserve my opinion on the usage of salt but in the meantime, dried and ground celery is a very good salt substitute. Elaine " INFO @ Vibrant Life " <VLinfo wrote: Hi Debbie, If your eyes seems hypersensitive and you are habituated to wearing sunglasses, best to wean off them. :Your eyes, i.e. your retina, will need time to readjust to different levels of ambient light. Think of it as going back into the sunshine after you haven't been for awhile, you'd take it gradually. Same idea exactly. Don't let your eyes get to the point where they feel irritated from the sunlight, that's too much for that day. Also, easier to reacclimate using earlier/later sun at first, then toward midday, which is brightest and most intense sunlight. For your eyes watering, the washcloth is a nice idea. You might try varying it, try cool and also try fairly warm, lie down and place it over your eyes, then a dry cloth over it to hold in the heat a bit longer. See whether that may be a bit soothing at times. And of course, make sure you are consuming lots of water!!! And NO salt!! (if you can Best, Elchanan Make your home page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Good points, couple of corrections just for accuracy. We do not acquire vitamin D, we make it under the skin, throughout whatever parts of the body we expose to sunlight. In contrast, we MUST acquire vitamin C. (Cats, carnivores, are the opposite, they make vitamin C and must acquire vitamin D). The sun is not harmful to us. Rather, we may have rendered ourselves subcapable of responding to full sunlight by depriving ourselves of adequate sunlight for an extended period. We ARE designed for midday sun exposure, but if we have not been out much, we must return to the sun slowly. This allows the pigment-producing layer of the skin to " come back online, " so to speak. Yes, vitamin D is fat soluble, and therefore if we make enough, we can store up a fairly large supply. Celery does not provide salt, but rather sodium ions. The sodium ions imparts a " salty " taste detectable on our tongue, IF our taste buds are working well. We need sodium ions (lots) and chloride ions (modest amount), but NOT in equal quantities. In contrast, salt (sodium chloride) creates significant disturbances in our blood chemistry and elsewhere, increases burden on the heart, etc. Salt changes the weight, surface tension, thermal capacity (specific heat), and various other characteristics of water and therefore has the same effects in blood. Salt is caustic to the point of being corrosive. Further, our body cannot harvest the sodium or the chlorine in the salt, we can only remove the salt or, lacking the resources, store it in a brine under the skin as water weight for (hopefully) later removal. Best to all, Elchanan E. Rice-Fells [shortydemp] Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:51 PM rawfood RE: [Raw Food] Sunglasses, eye sensitivity Also be mindful that the purest way to acquire Vitamin D is directly through the circle around your eyes in addition to your skin (depending on how much clothing you have on). Good point on what time of day and season you're exposed to the sun, mid-day through 2 or 3 p.m. can be harmful. It's been said that from Spring through the end of Summer the average person can absorb and store up enough Vit. D to last for up to 4 months. I'll reserve my opinion on the usage of salt but in the meantime, dried and ground celery is a very good salt substitute. Elaine " INFO @ Vibrant Life " <VLinfo wrote: Hi Debbie, If your eyes seems hypersensitive and you are habituated to wearing sunglasses, best to wean off them. :Your eyes, i.e. your retina, will need time to readjust to different levels of ambient light. Think of it as going back into the sunshine after you haven't been for awhile, you'd take it gradually. Same idea exactly. Don't let your eyes get to the point where they feel irritated from the sunlight, that's too much for that day. Also, easier to reacclimate using earlier/later sun at first, then toward midday, which is brightest and most intense sunlight. For your eyes watering, the washcloth is a nice idea. You might try varying it, try cool and also try fairly warm, lie down and place it over your eyes, then a dry cloth over it to hold in the heat a bit longer. See whether that may be a bit soothing at times. And of course, make sure you are consuming lots of water!!! And NO salt!! (if you can Best, Elchanan Make your home page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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