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Please help! what is the healthy distance to sit from a computer screen?
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Personal issue: Many view a computer from about 16 inches but all levels lower and higher are sometimes more comfortable. There is no "healthy" distance - this is a personal issue of comfort and not of health.
Answered 2/23/2014
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