Everyone Has a Role in Preventing Sexual Assault
This month is Sexual Assault Awareness Month – a time to help communities understand sexual violence and prevent it using best-available evidence.

What You Need To Know

• Nearly 1 in 5 women (19%) and 1 in 59 men (nearly 2%) in the U.S. have been raped in their lives. 1 in 15 men have been made to penetrate someone in their lives.
• Most first-time sexual assaults occur before age 18, making early intervention and prevention efforts critical—for women and men.
• Sexual Violence Surveillance: Uniform Definitions and Recommended Data Elements can help standardize sexual violence definitions and data to guide prevention.

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Healthy Vision: Make It Last a Lifetime

Taking care of your vision should be a priority just like eating healthy and being physically active. Healthy vision can help keep you safe when you are driving, while at work, home, or school, participating in sports, or taking part in recreational activities.

The following are some tips to help you protect your vision:

• Get regular comprehensive dilated eye exams as recommended by your eye care provider.
• Know your family’s eye health history. It’s important to know if anyone has been diagnosed with an eye disease or condition, because many are hereditary.
• Eat right to protect your sight, particularly dark leafy greens such as spinach, kale, or collard greens, and fish high in omega-3 fatty acids such as salmon, albacore tuna, trout, and halibut.
• Maintain a healthy weight.
• Wear protective eyewear when playing sports or doing activities around the home such as painting, yard work, and home repairs.
• Quit smoking or never start.
• Wear sunglasses that block 99%–100% of ultraviolet A (UVA) and ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation.
• Clean your hands prior to taking out contacts and be sure to cleanse your contact lenses properly to avoid the risk of infection.
• Practice workplace eye safety.

Taking care of your eyes also may benefit your overall health. People with vision problems are more likely than those with good vision to have diabetes, poor hearing, heart problems, high blood pressure, lower back pain and stroke, as well as have increased risk for falls, injury and depression. Among people aged 65 and older, 54.2 percent of those who are blind and 41.7 percent of those with impaired vision say their overall health is fair or poor. Just 21.5 percent of older Americans without vision problems reported fair to poor health.

In addition to your comprehensive dilated eye exams, visit an eye care professional if you have decreased vision; eye pain; drainage or redness of the eye; double vision; or diabetes; or if you see flashes of light, floaters (tiny specks that appear to float before your eyes), or circles (halos) around light sources.

For this Healthy Vision Month, resolve to take care of your eyes to make them last a lifetime.

Source Link: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/HealthyVision

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