Eat Fish! See Better!

Regular fish consumption may help prevent AMD. The Washington Post (3/29, Searing) reports that omega-3 fatty acid fish oils may help prevent the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a study published online March 14 in the Archives of Ophthalmology. For the study, researchers analyzed "data on 38,022 women, who averaged 55 years old and had no AMD at the start of the study." Over the course of ten years, researchers found that women "who regularly consumed at least one serving of fish a week -- especially canned tuna or dark-meat fish such as mackerel, salmon, sardines, bluefish or swordfish -- were 42 percent less likely to have developed AMD than were women who ate less than one serving of fish a month."