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Attention, chocolate lovers: You may not be able to help yourselves. Swiss and British scientists have linked the widespread love of chocolate to a chemical "signature" that may be programmed into our metabolic systems.
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Visual Impairment

Symptoms & Signs

What are the signs and symptoms of the condition?

Following are common symptoms of visual impairment:

blurry vision

double vision, or seeing two of everything. This occurs when the images that are coming from each eye do not line up properly.

difficulty focusing on either near or far objects

cloudy vision, often described as "looking through a dirty windshield"

seeing so-called floaters or black specks across the field of vision

inability to see certain colors

inability to see peripheral objects, meaning those objects that are to the side, up or down

loss of depth perception

ability only to distinguish light from dark

total loss or absence of all vision

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