Published July 10, 2009

More proof that you can stop serious eye disease
without drugs or surgery

In my last health alert, I showed you how your diet can greatly affect your eyesight. Eating the Living Foods Diet can stop many serious eye diseases, including glaucoma. Now there’s more evidence that eating the right food can stop age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

A recent report suggests that eating at least one serving of omega-3 rich fish per week could cut your risk of AMD by 50-70%. The researchers in the study gave a food questionnaire to 105 subjects with AMD and 2,170 controls. They found that those whose intake of DHA and EPA was at least 300 mg per day were 68-71% less likely to have AMD, compared to those with the lowest consumption of the two omega-3 fatty acids.

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Published July 9, 2009

The safe hormone therapy that prevents calcified arteries

Have you stopped taking estrogen pills out of fear that they’re dangerous? If so, you’re not alone. But you don’t have to be afraid of hormones. Let me explain why.

About five years ago, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) showed that “hormone replacement therapy” can increase your risk of heart disease, cancer, strokes, and dementia.

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Published July 8, 2009

How to reverse your failing vision without pills or surgery

Is your vision failing? Are you having trouble seeing things that were very clear just a few years ago? If so, you might be able to reverse the damage simply by changing your diet.

Kristen is young woman with a severe corneal disorder called keratoconus. It is a sharp steepening of the cornea. There isn’t a cure for the “disease.” It almost always worsens and then ruins vision. Eventually the cornea might ulcerate. Since her conventional physicians didn’t know what to do, they simply treated her with antidepressants.

Kristen decided to treat the disease on her own by changing her diet. When she saw her optometrist, he was amazed at what it did.

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