non-prescription reading glasses

[rjh01]

All reading glasses will weaken your eye muscles' ability to try to flatten or increase the curve of the lens in your eye by a process called accomodation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(anatomy))

Thats is why it is important to wear them only when absolutely neccessary, so that our eye muscles don't become "lazy" and dependent on glasses. My guess is that if the drugstore glasses have a "weaker" prescription than what an optician calculates from giving you a eye test, they will make your eye-muscles less lazy than the optician's pair.

But if the drugstore glasses are stronger than you actually need, your eyes could become even more dependent on a mechanical lens then if you used a prescription pair.

You have not provided any evidence for your opening paragraph.

I also fixed your link.

 

[Jeff Corey]

All reading glasses will weaken your eye muscles' ability to try to flatten or increase the curve of the lens in your eye by a process called accomodation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(anatomy)

Thats is why it is important to wear them only when absolutely neccessary, so that our eye muscles don't become "lazy" and dependent on glasses. My guess is that if the drugstore glasses have a "weaker" prescription than what an optician calculates from giving you a eye test, they will make your eye-muscles less lazy than the optician's pair.

But if the drugstore glasses are stronger than you actually need, your eyes could become even more dependent on a mechanical lens then if you used a prescription pair.

Not true, but a good example of an urban legend, or maybe a rural one.
"Glasses, however, do not weaken eyes; they are simply aids to improve vision. People who have been able to read easily close up without glasses may find that they cannot do so as they get older (past 40). When they begin to need stronger and stronger glasses, they may assume that wearing glasses has "ruined" their eyes. In actuality, they are experiencing a normal condition called presbyopia..."
http://www.agingeye.net/visionbasics/visionmyths.php