Millenium Health Tips

1. Color blindness is more common in one sex than men women. As many as 99% of a color-blind can not distinguish between green and red colors. Also found cases of patients who can not recognize the difference between red and green colors.

2. This eye defect is a genetic disorder inherited by the father or mother.

3. Has not been established regarding the number of patients, but a study says 8 -12% of European men are suffering from color blindness. While the percentage of European women of color blindness is 0.5 -1%. The level of color blindness in the other continents of course vary.

4. There is no way to treat color blindness, because he was not a disease but the visually impaired. It could be a color blind man would feel tortured by this state. Some companies set a requirement that workers should not color blind.

5. To determine whether a person suffering from color blindness, carried out tests using called Ishihara plates.

6. Laypeople often assume the physically color blind could only see black and white, like watching a silent movie in black and white. This assumption is wrong.

7. The bull was color blind. The impression generated red jump lead to the animal emotions, not by the color red itself.

8. In World War II, color blind soldiers sent to perform a particular mission. Their inability to see converted to green camouflage detect the opponent does.

9. Famous artists such as color blindness is Mark Twain, Paul Newman, Meat Loaf, Bing Cosby, Bob Dole.

10. Every person born color blind when first born.

11. Emerson Moser, senior crayon maker, admitted that he was blind green-blue color and not able to see color as a whole.

12. People with color blindness is always haunted by the question “is this color?”