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#EatRightforYourSight at AMDF
In May 2015, AMDF hosted a Healthy Vision blog party to celebrate the launch of our Eat Right for Your Sight™ cookbook. Bloggers were invited to share their AMD stories, and their favorite ingredients and recipes from the cookbook, and then connect it all together with #eatrightforyoursight. Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of legal blindness in people…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
Stargardt Disease Defined
In rare cases–one in 20,000–macular degeneration is diagnosed in children and teenagers. Of those cases, the most common cause is Stargardt disease, named for Karl Stargardt, a German ophthalmologist who first reported a case in his practice in 1901. Sometimes called Stargardt’s disease, Stargardt affects both eyes and develops sometime between the ages of six and twenty, when kids notice difficulties…
AMDF’s Grant Program and News
We are dedicated to identifying promising researchers and projects that advance our understanding of all forms of macular degeneration at every stage. Browse this section to learn about our current grants, past grants, our grantees, and the types of research that your donation dollars support.
Care and Treatment
Diagnosis, cures vs. treatments, helpful food and nutritional supplements, and reducing your risk. Finding a DoctorWhat to expect at the doctor’s office and questions to ask your doctor. Monitoring your Macular DegenerationMonitoring your macular degeneration at home is key to catching any changes in your vision quickly and ensuring the best outcome from your treatments. Reduce Your…
AMDF Featured in The New York Times
Sane Steps May Save Your Precious Central Vision The AMDF has been featured in the New York Times.Below is a reprint of the article. By JANE E. BRODY Dr. Sidney Schreiber, a cardiologist from Scarsdale, N.Y., was in his mid-70’s and still working in the lab and caring for patients when he noticed that he…
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