Cataracts

CATARACTS
Blindness due to cataracts afflicts 50 million persons worldwide. In the U.S. over 541,000 cataract operations are performed annually at a cost of almost $4 billion.

• Vegetables and Fruits Protect Against Cataracts - Older people who eat a lot of vegetables, fruits, and other nutritious foods have a lower risk of developing cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, according to doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Studies of 1380 people forty to seventy-nine years old showed that those who received nutritional supplements of vitamins A, B, C, and E found in garden vegetables were 37 percent less likely to have cataracts. .
Source: M. C. Leske et al., “The Lens Opacities Case-Control Study: Risk Factors for Cataract,” Archives of Optha109(2):244-51, 1991.

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