Saturday, March 26, 2016

Study: The Delicious Way to Save Your Eyes

Most of us probably first think of Vitamin C as a remedy for colds. (It probably isn't, but that's not the focus of the story.) But new British study, which looked at more than 1,000 pairs of 60-year-old twins, has concluded that those who had a high intake of vitamin C had a 33 percent lower chance of getting cataracts. Cataracts cause the eye's lens to become cloudy and are the leading cause of blindness worldwide. But while many of us have accepted that they occur naturally with age, this study suggests that they may not be as inevitable as we may have thought.

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Study: The Delicious Way to Save Your Eyes

Most of us probably first think of Vitamin C as a remedy for colds. (It probably isn’t, but that’s not the focus of the story.) 

But new British study, which looked at more than 1,000 pairs of 60-year-old twins, has concluded that those who had a high intake of vitamin C had a 33 percent lower chance of getting cataracts.

Cataracts cause the eye’s lens to become cloudy and are the leading cause of blindness worldwide. But while many of us have accepted that they occur naturally with age, this study suggests that they may not be as inevitable as we may have thought.

Nicholas English
Content Manager of About.com Health
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