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How Much Meat Is Healthy To Eat? The Recommended Dietary Allowance is 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day. This is the minimum amount people should consume and will vary based ...
A British teenager has lost his eyesight after years of subsisting entirely on a junk food-based diet, according to a new study. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine journal on ...
Singapore is believed to have the highest prevalence of myopia in the world; up to 80% of people there have myopia, but the accurate figure is unknown. [137] China's myopia rate is 31%: 400 million of its 1.3 billion people are myopic. The prevalence of myopia in high school in China is 77%, and in college is more than 80%. [138]
Vision therapy (VT), or behavioral optometry, is an umbrella term for alternative medicine treatments using eye exercises, based around the pseudoscientific claim that vision problems are the true underlying cause of learning difficulties, particularly in children. [1]
[3] [14] [15] Dietitians dismiss the carnivore diet as an extreme fad diet, [3] [4] which has attracted criticism from dietitians and physicians as being potentially dangerous to health (see Meat § Health). [12] [14] [15] It also raises levels of LDL cholesterol, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. [4]
Treatment of the deficiency can be accomplished with a vitamin A or multivitamin supplement or by eating foods rich in vitamin A. Treatment with supplements and/or diet can be successful until the disease progresses as far as corneal ulceration, at which point only an extreme surgery can offer a chance of returning sight.
Some tests have revealed that myopia in some animals can be improved with eye drops containing zinc, by increasing the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD). [ 7 ] The rhesus monkey's vision amplitude reduction is noticeable in its second decade of life; however the condition does not impede normal functioning.
Nyctalopia (/ ˌ n ɪ k t ə ˈ l oʊ p i ə /; from Ancient Greek νύκτ-(núkt-) 'night' ἀλαός (alaós) 'blind, invisible' and ὄψ (óps) 'eye'), [1] also called night-blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light.