CAUSE – EFFECT RELATIONSHIP OF EATING HABIT AND HEREDITARY ON STANDARD REFRACTION FOR VISUAL EFFICIENCY

Abstract

A vital predisposing factor for a healthy living, clear vision and improved visual efficiency IS good eating habit. Balanced food taking improved functioning mechanism of the body system, most especially the brain that controls all activation of the body system. This paper examined the cause-effect relationship that occurs between food taken and hereditary predisposing factor on standard refraction for visual efficiency of a sampled population in Oyo State. 150 undergraduate and postgraduate students were sampled for the study. Four hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Hypotheses 1 and 2 were accepted as there were no significant relationship between eating habit and visual efficiency, and eating habit and hereditary.  Hypotheses 3 and 4 were rejected because there were significant differences between males and females visual efficiency levels, and symptoms and visual efficiency.

Recommendations were made to the parents, the school and the governments at various levels to introduce school feeding to enhance visual efficiency