Search results for: “Macular degeneration”
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Chicken with Mushrooms and Thyme
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Carrot Cumin Soup
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What a Person with AMD Sees
Joan W Miller,MD Chief and Chair of OphthalmologyHarvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Full Transcript If you had macular degeneration and you were looking at me now, you would not be able to see my face, but you’d be able to make out my arms and shoulders, and that is disconcerting for
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Hope & Cope – Video on Living Well with AMD
“HOPE IS THE WORD” **Note: If this item is out of stock, you can view for free online on Youtube. Living Well with Macular Degeneration is the Focus of New Video Featuring Actors Dabney Coleman and Don Knotts, Olympian Marla Runyan, Film Critic Charles Champlin and Others Macular degeneration is an increasingly common eye disease that
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A Letter From our Founder
Dear Friends: I know firsthand the shock of learning I may go blind from a disease I’d never heard of. I know the dismay of hearing that little can be done. Until I was diagnosed with macular degeneration soon after my 39th birthday, I knew nothing of this insidious disease that affects so many. As
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Letter from Chip Goehring, AMDF Board President
Dear Friends: I formed The American Macular Degeneration Foundation to educate the public about macular degeneration and to support scientific research for its prevention, treatment, and cure. Along the way, AMDF has become so much more as our stories have been shared and we have helped each other after the diagnosis is received and the
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AMDF Cookbook – Eat Right for Your Sight
Eat Right for Your Sight™ It wasn’t just your mother telling you to eat carrots for better vision. People have known for centuries that certain foods can be good for your eyesight, including 16th Century Spanish explorers who carried chili peppers on voyages to help with night vision. Your mom and the explorers were smart:
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How The Eye Works as a Camera
To understand how and why macular degeneration affects vision, one must know how the human eye works. The eye can be compared to a camera. The cornea is the transparent, curved front layer of the eye, where light is first focused before it passes through the pupil. The pupil, behind the cornea, is a hole
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Junk Food May Be Bad for Your Eyesight
A study published in the August 2001 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology suggests that junk food may be bad for your eyesight. Fat-filled snack foods may heighten the risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Vegetable, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, along with linoleic acid, are the types of fat that put junk food
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Don’t Smoke – it Exacerbates Eye Disease
New research gives smokers one more reason to quit: pack-a-day-or-more puffers double their likelihood of developing the most common form of blindness among the elderly. The more people smoke and the longer they smoke, the higher the risk of developing macular degeneration, according to two studies in the October 9, 1996 issue of The Journal of