article_snippet.sent: Spending an extra 40 minutes a day in the sunshine has been shown to improve children
article_snippet.sent: Chinese scientists have reported a 23 per cent reduction in myopia – short-sightedness – in children who spend an extra 40 minutes a day in the sunshine.
article_snippet.sent: Study shows that 40 minutes of extra natural light per day, by playing outside or climbing trees, could help to reduce cases by 26 per cent (file image) 'What wasn’t factored into our decades of research was that reading and studying are done indoors, away from daylight.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Chinese children are participating in research to determine if more exposure to daylight will protect Chinese children from Chinese children myopic genes.
highlights_snippet.sent: Forty minutes extra of natural light per day could cut cases by a quarter .
  