Sunglasses are not just a fashion accessory. Exotic lens colors may be stylish, but gray because it absorbs all colors about equally diminishes color perception the least. Green is second-best.
Sunglasses should block 99-100% of both kinds of ultraviolet (UV) radiation: UVA and UVB. Look for this information on a label or hangtag. If glare is a problem, polarized lenses are a good choice. "Mirror" lenses, the type favored by skiers, also help to decrease glare, because they screen out more light than do tinted lenses.

New York, NY. April 1, 1998 The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a consortium of more than 250 scientists and physicians today applauded approval of the use of a new noncaloric sweetener, sucralose, by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
This approval significantly broadens the dietary choices of Americans stated Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of ACSH.

New York, NY March 19, 1998. A large-scale study conducted by a group of Finnish and American researchers has been cited as possible evidence that older men should begin taking vitamin E daily to prevent prostate cancer. The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) cautions against this because of the known risk of bleeding complications due to daily use of vitamin E.

New York, NY March 11, 1998.Scientists at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) today urged United States Senators to support legislation pending before the Senate (S. 981) that would require cost-benefit and risk-analysis techniques to be applied to major federal regulations.
"To ask the federal government to make use of better, modern decision-making tools such as cost-benefit and risk-analysis safeguards is plain common sense, good public policy, and good science," says Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, President of ACSH.

New York, NY March 6, 1998.Scientists associated with the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) today deplored attempts by some American corporations to manipulate scientific findings by withholding funding when research results displease them.

New York, NY March 1998. A number of West Coast high school students have been awarded monetary prizes in the first Health in the Media essay contest sponsored by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a national nonprofit health-education consortium.

New York, NY March 1998. A study published in Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society, reports findings that confirm what the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) has long held: that cancer rates are falling in the United States and that death rates from the disease are declining. ACSH's position on U.S. cancer rates was set forth in detail in a 1995 booklet, Update: Is There a Cancer Epidemic in the United States?

New York, NY March, 1998. A self-styled consumer group is distorting scientific research to scare the public about a perfectly safe product milk from cows treated with genetically engineered bovine somatotropin, or rBST the American Council on Science and Health announced today.
ACSH, a consortium of more than 250 scientists, was responding to unfounded charges by Dr. Samuel Epstein of the Cancer Prevention Coalition that milk from such cows will lead to elevated levels of a hormone called IGF-1 which in turn will cause increased risk of prostate cancer.

New York, NY February 12, 1998. According to a commentary released today by the New York City Advisory Council on Health Priorities, an affiliate of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), New York City Public Advocate Mark Green's report Lead & Kids: Why are 30,000 NYC Children Contaminated? lacks sound, comprehensive scientific support and relies, instead, on biased language and emotional, anecdotal case reports.

New York, NY February, 1998 The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) has reported that, as a group, consumer-oriented magazines outrank other types of magazines in the quality of their nutrition reporting, with homemaking publications rated a close second. These findings were part of ACSH's seventh survey of nutrition reporting in popular magazines, in which 15 of 21 magazines surveyed were rated as either "Excellent" or "Good" sources of nutrition information.