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Article: Carrots may help prevent macular degeneration.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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St. Louis, Missouri: Although major studies are still under way, reports published in the Journal of the American Optometric Association (12-93) are promising enough to convince many optometrists to consider recommending diet changes and vitamin and mineral supplements to prevent, retard or stop the dry form of age-related macular degeneration.
About 90 percent of people with macular degeneration have the dry form, for which there has been no known treatment. The less common wet form responds to laser treatments if it is diagnosed and treated early.
Macular degeneration is the result of the destruction of light-sensitive cells in the retina, which ...