{"id":231599,"date":"2026-02-18T22:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-clearer-look-at-the-rise-of-myopia"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:08:55","slug":"a-clearer-look-at-the-rise-of-myopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-clearer-look-at-the-rise-of-myopia","title":{"rendered":"A Clearer Look at the Rise of Myopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-clearer-look-at-the-rise-of-myopia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading this on your phone in the dark?<\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that focusing up close in low-light settings may contribute to rising myopia rates.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the researchers found.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Half of the world\u2019s population will be nearsighted by 2050. Scientists propose that the amount of light reaching the retina in dark environments could be why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this on your phone in the dark? A new study suggests that focusing up close in low-light settings may contribute to rising myopia rates. Here\u2019s what the researchers found. Half of the world\u2019s population will be nearsighted by 2050. Scientists propose that the amount of light reaching the retina in dark environments could be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}