Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye

Download or read book Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye written by Allen Taylor and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant advancements in nutrition's impact on the eye have occurred faster than any volume can document... until now. This book gives the background and rationale regarding the physiological damage caused by biological oxidants as well as the rationale for the protective roles for nutrient-antioxidants and how they affect the risk for cataracts. This volume also contains information on how to quantitatively assess age-related diseases of the eye including cataracts and age-related maculopathy. Smoking and light exposure as factors for age-related eye diseases as well as the utility of potential anticataract pharmaceuticals is discussed.