Caffeinated Coffee Linked To Vision Loss
Coffee consumption can lead to a greater risk of developing exfloliation glaucoma, the primary cause of secondary glaucoma, all over the world. A new study. published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, suggests coffee drinkers may need to reconsider their coffee intake to decrease their probability of developing vision loss or blindness…
October 4, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: all-over, coffee, developing-exfloliation, eye health / blindness, greater-risk, investigative, oncalldiets, over-the-world, primary, probability, secondary-glaucoma, suggests-coffee, visual-science, world
Millions Of Dry Eye Sufferers May Benefit From Caffeine
Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s School of Medicine have shown for the first time that caffeine intake can significantly increase the eye’s ability to produce tears, a finding that could improve treatment of dry eye syndrome. This common eye condition affects about four million people age 50 and older in the United States…
April 18, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: common, common-eye, eye health / blindness, first-time, million-people, produce-tears, school, tokyo, university
Age-Related Blindness May Be Warded Off By Grapes
Can eating grapes slow or help prevent the onset of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a debilitating condition affecting millions of elderly people worldwide? Results from a new study published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine suggest this might be the case. The antioxidant actions of grapes are believed to be responsible for these protective effects…
January 13, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: condition-affecting, diet, eating-grapes, eye health / blindness, help-prevent, medicine, new-study, on call diets, onset, prevent-the-onset, radical, radical-biology
Treating Corneal Disease With Vitamin B-Based Medication May Offer Some Patients A Permanent Solution
Patients in the United States who have the cornea-damaging disease keratoconus may soon be able to benefit from a new treatment that is already proving effective in Europe and other parts of the world. The treatment, called collagen crosslinking, improved vision in almost 70 percent of patients treated for keratoconus in a recent three-year clinical trial in Milan, Italy…
October 25, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: already-proving, called-collagen, clinical-trial, cornea, europe, eye health / blindness, improved-vision, milan, new-treatment, nutritional counseling, parts, united, united-states, world
Association Between Vitamin D Levels And Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Women under the age of 75 with high vitamin D status were less likely to have early age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in adults, a University at Buffalo study has shown. The disease affects approximately 9 percent of Americans aged 40 and older…
April 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: amd, buffalo, eye health / blindness, macular-degeneration, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-leading, under-the-age, university
High Vitamin D Levels Reduce Risk Of Developing Age-Related Macular Degeneration Among Women Younger Than 75
Females under the age of 75 years whose blood levels of vitamin D are high appear to have a reduced risk of developing AMD (Age-Related Macular Degeneration), researchers from the University of Buffalo, New York, wrote in Archives of Ophthalmology…
April 11, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: amd, archives, blood-levels, buffalo, eye health / blindness, from-the-university, macular, oncalldietitian.com, reduced-risk, under-the-age, university
High Levels Of Vitamin D Appear To Be Associated With Lower Risk Of Age-Related Macular Degeneration In Young Women
High levels of vitamin D in the bloodstream appear to be associated with a decreased risk of developing early age-related macular degeneration among women younger than 75 years, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…
April 11, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-women, archives, bloodstream, decreased-risk, diet, eye health / blindness, jama, macular-degeneration, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, ophthalmology, the-bloodstream
Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acid Intake Associated With Reduced Risk Of Age-Related Macular Degeneration In Women
Regular consumption of fish and omega-3 fatty acids found in fish is associated with a significantly reduced risk of developing age-related macular degeneration in women, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the June issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
March 14, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: archives, developing-age-related, estimated-nine, eye health / blindness, jama, macular-degeneration, nutrition, nutritional counseling, omega-3-fatty, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, online-today, ophthalmology, reduced-risk
Study Reveals How Omega 3’s Work In Preventing Several Forms Of Blindness
Omega-3 fatty acids – fats commonly found in fish oil – were shown several years ago to prevent retinopathy, a major form of blindness, in a mouse model of the disease…
February 10, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: disease, eye health / blindness, fatty-acids, fish-oil, major-form, mouse-model, oncalldiets, prevent-retinopathy, several-years