The Mediterranean diet, ranked the best diet by U.S. News & World Report for six consecutive years, is renowned for its cardiovascular benefits, and its benefits extend beyond that. In this article, Man Man, a nutritionist at the All Round Clinic in Taiwan, will provide insights on combating age-related macular degeneration, prostate cancer, and dementia…

Macular degeneration is one of the three major eye diseases that cause blindness worldwide and can result in blurred vision. Although most of the patients are elderly, the youngest macular degeneration patient in Hong Kong is only 15 years old. Patients with high levels of cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, and stress, as well as…

A recent study has shown that the amount of coffee consumed may impact its health benefits, adding to existing evidence that drinking coffee can have a broad range of positive eye-health benefits. Research from the Center for Eye Research Australia has potentially found a link between coffee and tea consumption and the thickness of the macular…

“Am I going blind?” was the first question I asked my ophthalmologist when I recently went for my annual eye exam. Because I’m older now, she checks me for typical eye conditions related to aging, such as glaucoma and cataracts. Imagine my surprise when she told me that I needed to get another exam, called…

The National Institute of Health (NIH)’s follow-up study on participants that were part of an eye supplement study has revealed that elevated lung cancer risks linked with the supplement still exist around 30 years later. The study found that though the current Age-Related Eye Disease supplement (AREDS) is effective at slowing the progression macular degeneration,…

A study conducted by the University of South Australia has gone against the common literature relating poor eyesight to brain decline, finding that cognitive tests can misdiagnose older people with age-related vision decline with cognitive decline by up to 25 percent. “A mistaken score in cognitive tests could have devastating ramifications, leading to unnecessary changes…

Your choice of cooking oil can make a profound difference in your health. I’ve often warned against the use of soybean oil. Not only is partially hydrogenated soybean oil loaded with trans fat, which has been linked to heart disease, it’s also a source of an omega-6 fat called linoleic acid (LA), which is highly…

As many as a third of people with “wet” age-related macular degeneration, a blinding retinal disease, may someday be able to safely stop eye injection therapy without further vision loss, a preliminary study shows. The findings fall short of setting a timeline for ending treatment or predicting precisely which patients can stop injections, the researchers…

As baby boomers mature en masse, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is on the rise. AMD is the leading cause of vision loss among people 50 and older. It affects more than 10 million people in the United States, according to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation. Fortunately, an ancient spice offers some protection. The macula is…

Jacques was a very active retiree. That ended one November morning as his life was suddenly turned upside down. When he woke that day, he couldn’t see out of one eye. Panicked, he came to see me right away. Jacques had been diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) a few years earlier. His condition had…