Article: Dietary Fat Intake Linked to Dry Eye Syndrome in Women; Your Eyes Are What You Eat, Too; Consuming Foods Rich in Omega-3, Such as Tuna, May Reduce Risk By 68 Percent.

Byline: Schepens Eye Research Institute

BOSTON, Oct. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than eight million people in the United States, predominantly women, suffer from dry eye syndrome, a painful and debilitating eye disease. In the first study of its kind to examine modifiable risk factors, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Schepens Eye Research Institute (SERI) found that the amount, type and ratio of essential fatty acids in the diet may play a key role in dry eye prevention in women. The study is published in the October 2005 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

According to lead author Biljana Miljanovic, MD, of the ...

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