"For people with myopia, heavy occupational lifting and being overweight appear to be risk factors for retinal detachment, according to a brief report from Italy in the current issue of Epidemiology...Distant objects...like your overhanging belly.
Myopia, also referred to as nearsightedness, is when the eyes focus incorrectly to make distant objects appear blurred."
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Myopic patients cautioned about heavy lifting
Kudos, fatsos.
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People who are nearsighted do have higher tension on their retinas due to the shape of the eye being more oval than round. The greater the myopia, the higher the risk. As we age, the vitreous gel also weakens adding more strain.
There are specific nutrients one can take that can strengthen the retina and related connective tissue such as lutein, zeaxanthin, omega-3 fatty acids, bilberry, gingko biloba, vitamin C and glucosamine sulfate for example.
Also a diet high in vegetables (particularly the green, leafy type), low in refined carbohydrates, and void in unhealthy oils such as vegetable oils and food fried in oils helps maintain healthy vision as well.
For more information on myopia and eye health, go to www.naturaleyecare.com
Hi, Michael and welcome to Fitness Watch.
I have not removed your comment, even though it touts a commercial site, since it instructs other readers on caution.
You have failed to mention that you are involved in the enterprise you promote.
Some people might want to know that.
Similar to research studies where funding from an organization that has an interest in the outcome is hidden, you, too have chosen this arguably low-road route.
Some might find this behavior less than savory.
Also, and readers should take note, you make unsubstantiated health claims.
For example, you claim that the retina can be "strengthened." What does that mean? What is the effect of that?
Let us suppose that you intended to suggest that by consuming the "specific nutrients" you promote and sell on your website the retina is less likely to tear.
I am willing to bet that you have no data that can prove the value of any of these substances, individually, in combination or in which doses.
This is even more likely to be true as you sell products that almost certainly vary from batch to batch in "potency" since they contain herbs and other, IMHO, garbage.
I suspect that the only data you have to demonstrate the value of these substances can be found in your bank account ledger. On the deposits side.
Your claim that vegetable oils are "unhealthy oils" is also unsubstantiated.
If you have any real data, i.e., scholarly data, to support your contentions, and, by extension, I assume the contentions of Dr. Grossman, the optometrist, please send it to me and I will gladly review it.
Until then, I consider the stuff you and your optometrist/acupuncturist partner spout, to be crap, at best, and a way to separate persons desperate for help from their money.
Just send the proof and I will gladly alter my opinion of your scheme if such an alteration is justified.
I will also publish the references at Fitness Watch so readers can see what you claim passes for proof/science.
And, by the way, next time have the decency/ethical courage to inform people of your vested interest in the links you post.
Perhaps a change in diet, some herb or a well-placed needle (is moxa necessary?) will fix moral myopia.
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