Naturopathic Maine

Most stories that feature shock diseases aren't very credible. But this story about blindness as a result of junk food was reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine . The teen, who was "otherwise healthy," meaning he reached his full height and didn't seem ill, continues his junk food diet with the addition of a multivitamin. The story has been picked up by various news groups, including the Washington Post , who took a moment to attack veganism as a problem when the issue was junk food. Newsweek mentions an expert who estimates that 2 billion people suffer from nutrient deficiencies but that we have little information on what this does to eyesight. Not to argue with an expert, but we do. As I write in The Eye Diet , we are suffering from a global pandemic of blindness. I've been wondering about why African eyesight is better than Asian eyesight, but the difference may just be the amount of junk food as well as the lack of sunlight. More disturbing is th...

I wrote a book about eye health called The Eye Diet . It kept me from needing to switch to the nightmare of trifocals. But almost no one has read it. So I decided to make a short, simple summary for a busy world. The book has all the research, but here are a few of the things I found.  One, eye sight is not a one way downhill slide . We lose most of our eyesight during our teens, and then during our perimenopausal years (sorry guys, our hormones change too). Otherwise, sight tends to be pretty constant.  Two, ten hours a day of screen time does permanently affect sight . We are seeing a pandemic of extreme nearsightedness that promises to enormously increase legal blindness across the globe.  And three, the good news, there are simple things you can do to help your eyesight .  Get outside . Use natural light to read by. Get your children outside. We do not have artificial light that can match the sun. If you are having trouble reading, practice us...