Tag: diet
What your patient might ask you…
Can what I eat make my AMD worse?
There is growing evidence suggesting it can.
A collaboration of researchers in Europe found that patients that adhere to a...
I hear oranges can prevent AMD.
Several news outlets reported last week that people who eat oranges are "60% less likely to lose their eyesight from AMD."
It's not clickbait. They are...
What your patient might ask you…
Will losing weight help my dry eye?
A recent study showed a correlation between higher body fat percentage and dry eye. The study included over 300 participants and each participant completed a...
What your patient might ask you…
Will eating a lot of kale prevent me from getting cataracts?
A study published in JAMA Ophthalmology found an association between a high vitamin K diet and...
Why, universe, can’t sour patch kids be consider healthy?
A study suggests there is a link between a healthy diet and age-related cataracts. Researchers found differences between the gut bacteria of people that...
Another study that says you are what you eat.
Researchers from Tufts University observed that a high glycemic index diet resulted in many AMD features including RPE hypopigmentation and atrophy, lipofuscin accumulation, and photoreceptor degeneration in...