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Article: Eat oily fish 'to protect eyesight in old age'.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- August 9, 2008
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Eat oily fish 'to protect eyesight in old age'
London, Aug 9 (PTI) If you want to protect your eyesight in old age, a study suggests that eating oily fish at least once a week would be one good way to go about it.
A team of researchers in Europe has found evidence that eating oily fish once a week reduces age-related muscular degeneration (AMD) which is the major cause of blindness and poor vision in many people.
According to them, there are two types of AMD, wet and dry. Of the two, wet AMD is the main cause of vision loss and fish fat could prevent it.
"This is the first study in Europeans to show a beneficial association on wet AMD ...