What You Must Know About Age-Related Macular Degenration: How You Can Prevent, Stop, or Reverse Amd

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Jeffrey Anshel (Jeffrey Anshel) Laura Stevens (Laura Stevens)

What You Must Know About Age-Related Macular Degenration

How You Can Prevent, Stop, or Reverse Amd

Jeffrey Anshel (Jeffrey Anshel), Laura Stevens (Laura Stevens)

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English

Square One Publishers
01 May 2018

Dietetics & nutrition; Ophthalmology; Popular medicine & health; Diets & dieting

Age-related macular degeneration—AMD—is the most commonly diagnosed eye disorder in people over fifty. Well over two million Americans have been told they have AMD, and that number is expected to grow substantially. While this is a frightening statistic, over the last several years, medical researchers have shown that a number of effective treatments can slow, stop, and even reverse the progress of AMD. Now, best-selling authors Dr. Jeffrey Anshel and Laura Stevens, who herself has been diagnosed with this condition, have joined forces to produce an up-to-date guide to what you need to know to combat and even prevent AMD. The 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 structures of the eye. In Part Two, the authors look at the specific nutrients that affect the various cells of the eye. Included is a discussion of AREDS—the National Eye Institute’s study that showed which supplements help protect the eye from disease. Part Three offers an additional weapon against AMD. It explains why diet matters and offers advice on selecting foods that promote eye health while eliminating those that do the most damage. Part Four provides practical suggestions and easy-to-follow tips on how to incorporate this valuable information into your life. 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 a better, healthier life. Knowledge is power, and the more you know, the more likely you are to avoid the consequences of AMD. Let What You Must Know About Age-Related Macular Degeneration help you safeguard one of your most precious gifts—eyesight.

By: Jeffrey Anshel (Jeffrey Anshel), Laura Stevens (Laura Stevens)
Imprint: Square One Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
ISBN: 9780757004490
ISBN 10: 0757004490
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 May 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Preface Introduction PART ONE The Basics of Macular Degeneration 1. How Your Eyes Work 2. What Is Age-Related Macular Degeneration? 3. What Are the Risk Factors for Macular Degeneration? 4. Metabolic Syndrome PART TWO Macular Degeneration and Supplements 5. The AREDS Trials 6. Plant-Based Supplements 7. Nutrients for Eye Health PART THREE Macular Degeneration and Your Diet 8. What Not to Put on Your Plate 9. What Makes a Food Healthy? 10. Choosing Foods to Put on Your Plate 11. Putting Your Anti-AMD Diet Into Action PART FOUR Living Successfully with Macular Degeneration 12. Addressing Lifestyle Risk Factors 13. Tools for Living with AMD Conclusion Glossary Resources References Index

Jeffrey Anshel, OD, FAAO, received his Bachelor of Science in Visual Science and his Doctorate of Optometry from the Illinois College of Optometry. After serving as a Navy optometrist, he worked at a clinic with other healing practitioners, where he learned about the role of nutrition in eye health. He also developed the ""20-20-20"" rule for easing computer-related eyestrain. Dr. Anshel is the founder and former president of the Ocular Wellness and Nutrition Society, and the current president of Corporate Vision Counseling. He is now based in Hawaii. Laura Stevens, MSci, received her master's degree in nutrition science from the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Since graduation, she had worked at Purdue as a researcher who investigated the relationship between diet and health disorders. As an author of nine successful books on diet, behavior, and allergies, Laura now deals with low vision herself. She lives with her amazing cats, Bentley and Seis, in Lafayette, Indiana.

Reviews for What You Must Know About Age-Related Macular Degenration: How You Can Prevent, Stop, or Reverse Amd

A comprehensive guide to age-related macular degeneration, beginning with scientific and technical explanations and progressing to practical nutritional advice along with diet and lifestyle changes that can help to prevent or delay vision loss . . . an important reminder not to take the health of your vision for granted. --Dee Long - blogger, Top Reviewer (Amazon.com) Gotta Love It (Blog) If AMD [Age-related Macular Degeneration] 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 a better, healthier life . . . [What You Must Know About Age-related Macular Degeneration is] an ideal explanatory and instructive presentation that is impressively informative and thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization . . . exceptional and unreservedly recommended. --Susan Bethany, Reviewer Midwest Book Review Reviewer's Bookwatch In this advice-filled guide, optometrist Anshel and medical researcher (and Advanced Macular Degeneration patient) Stevens explain how the eye works, what the risk factors are, what lifestyle changes make sense, and how to live with the condition . . . Anshel and Stevens sprinkle in many interesting tidbits and tips in this ode to appreciating and preserving eyesight. --Karen Springen Booklist Magazine Very professionally written, yet the science is well within the scope of the generally knowledgeable reader . . . a medical book packed with sound and readable advice about an important topic. Your eyes age along with all other body parts and it is possible to reduce the pace of that process, something that you will learn how to do from this book. --Charles Ashbacher Technologies Charles Ashbacher