What You Must Know about Age-Related Macular Degeneration: How You Can Prevent, Stop, or Reverse AMD [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Age-related macular degeneration-AMD-is the most common cause of vision loss in people over the age of fifty. Yet for many years, the only treatment offered to most people diagnosed with AMD has been a supplement formula that can slow the progression of macular degeneration, but cannot prevent, stop, or reverse AMD and offers no help to those in the earliest stages of the disease. Now, for the first time, is a comprehensive program for the treatment of this all-too common disorder. Written by optometrist Jeffrey Anshel and medical researcher Laura Stevens, who herself has AMD, this book is divided into four parts. Part One explains how the eye works and how AMD develops, in both its wet and its dry forms. It then looks at the most common risk factors and explains how each of these factors negatively affects the eye. In Part Two, the authors look at the specific nutrients that offer protection to the eye. Included is the AREDS supplement-the over-the-counter formula now widely used to treat AMD-as well as many other nutritional supplements that have been scientifically proven to support eye health and combat AMD. Part Three explains which foods contribute to eye health and which can actually damage your vision. Most important, it guides you in putting this knowledge into action with the easy-to-follow Anti-AMD Diet. Finally, Part Four recommends simple lifestyle changes you can make to maintain or restore eye health, and then offers a wide range of tools and techniques for living successfully with macular degeneration. If AMD runs in your family or you have been diagnosed with this potentially life-altering condition, it is important to know that there is not only hope, but a real path to improved vision. Let What You Must Know About Age-Related Macular Degeneration help you safeguard one of your most precious gifts-eyesight. Book jacket.

What You Must Know about Age-Related Macular Degeneration : How You Can Prevent, Stop, or Reverse AMD, Used [Paperback]