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The Eye and How It Works

Eyes collects light from the surrounding environment. The light passes through the clear cornea and the clear fluid (aqueous humour) of the front chamber of the eye (anterior chamber). By the actions of the dynamic coloured diaphragm, the iris, the amount of light entering the eye is controlled. The light is then focused onto the retina (detecting layer), by the lens. The lens is held in place by zonules (these suspensory ligaments are string like structures that radiate out from it like the spo...

Glaucoma

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Age Related Macula Degeneration (AMD)

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Sweeteners, Part 2: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Food For ThoughtKeep in mind that sugar is not the issue, per se. It is the overconsumption of sugar that causes metabolic disease.Sucrose is a glucose bonded to a fructose.Adding fructose or sucrose to the diet can lead to the development of obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidaemia, and occasionally high blood pressure.Strong associations between fructose sweeteners intake and insulin resistance, metabolic diseases, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, fatty liver, chronic kidne...

Sweeteners, Part 1: The Whys and The Wherefore

Potential health effects of sugar overconsumption include 1) elevated blood sugar, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia (Basciano, Federico, & Adeli, 2005), 2) nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) (with high fructose intake being recognised as a contributor) (Ter Horst & Serlie, 2017), 3) increased cardiovascular disease risk (Di Nicolantonio, Lucan, & O’Keefe, 2017) (with people consuming 25% or more of their calories from sugar were three times as likely to ...

Save Your Sight With Food for Healthy Eyes | Foods For Eye Health

Many of our diseases are caused by poor nutrition due to the modern diet, which follows the Current (International) Dietary Guidelines. These are both skewed towards consumption of large quantities of grains in the form of bread, pasta and rice, damaged vegetable oils, hidden added sugar and a lack of good quality oils and good fats. The Pitfalls of the Current Dietary Guidelines and The Modern DietPoorly managed soils, stripped and not replenished with mineral fertilisers and the burd...

Dr Emma’s Top Tips & Foods For Eye Health

Delicious, nutritious foods for eye health recipes the whole family will love!  Bought to you by our very own natural eye health expert, Dr Emma Sanford. Foods For Eye HealthDr Emma’s Top Tips & Foods For Eye HealthSausage Rolls Prep time: 30 minutesCook time: 15 – 25 minutesServes: 6IngredientsPastry:2 cups (250g) Mozzarella1 cup (85g) Ground Almonds2 tbsp (30ml) Cream4 tbsp (20g) Psyllium Husk (available at your supermarket or local health food store)1 Egg whiskedSausage...

Foods For Eye Health | "Rock Your Retina” Food Challenge

I challenged Emma to create some recipes which will help us get our much-needed nutrients from real food, and specifically foods for eye health, and she has come up with the “Rock your Retina Food Challenge”. It's simple … just include as many of these recipes in your weekly meal plan and try to eat at least 50 different foods in 7 days. And the catch? For best results you need to repeat the 7 day challenge at least 520 times!  The recipes that follow are enough to make anyo...

Nutrition for the Retina

Good nutrition is an incredibly complex matrix of nutrients that must be present in just the right amounts. The digestion and absorption of a nutrient and then it’s onward participation in countless reactions throughout the body, depends intimately on the presence of other nutrients, again in the Goldilocks ‘just right’ proportions.  While I have focused on the eye-related nutrients that I mentioned in my last letter, there is no getting away from the fact that a broad array of plant ...

General Health & Eye Health

In this issue we will look at smoking, to extend on the reference to quitting in the February newsletter. It is a sticky subject… a difficult one to approach as a non smoker to smokers, a tricky addiction behaviour to break down and beat, a powerful chemical addiction, and a social hot potato.  Let’s start at the very beginning…Botanically, tobacco plants are from the same family as tomato, potato and deadly night shade (Atropa belladonna) which is the original source of atropine, use...

The Benefits Of Good Overall Health For Your Eyes

Strangely, I begin my first article for you talking about teeth!In the 1930s there was an avant-garde dentist named Weston A. Price. He began to observe dental and gum disease, dental degeneration and deformity and questioned why it was happening. As part of this research, he embarked upon an epic, global study of native and modern cultures to ascertain the impact of the newly evolved Western diet. He noted that the impact occurred immediately, and in the first generation after, a society’s ad...

Eye Floaters

The posterior segment or back chamber of the eye is far bigger and constitutes the bulk of the eye. The total distance between the tip of the cornea and the tip of the back of the eye is typically 21-24mm.This chamber contains a gel-like substance akin to egg white, called vitreous humour. It is made up of about 1% protein fibres and hyaluronic acid and around 99% water. When we are young it is the consistency of the white of a fresh egg, where all the water components is bound to the long strin...

Retinitis Pigmentosa

Retinitis Pigmentosa is a group of inherited diseases that usually starts with night blindness, followed by progressive loss of peripheral vision, leading to blindness.It causes the progressive deterioration of specialised, light-absorbing cells in the retina. The majority of people with Retinitis Pigmentosa are legally blind by the age of 40, with a central visual field of less than 20 degrees in diameter.An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are affected by retinitis pigmentosa. Retinitis ...