Nutrition and Glaucoma
The comment posted here represents hopeful and wishful thinking regarding a link between glaucoma progression and dietary factors. At this time there are no good studies to demonstrate a link between diet and glaucoma. The difficulty lies in the multifactorial nature of the disease. What is the genetic component? What effect does high blood pressure or low blood pressure or arteriosclerosis have on the disease? Add sex, age, ethnicity, etc and one can see the difficulty in conducting a good study to make the nutritional arguement. There is no question that theoretically speaking, nutritional factors should have an impact but at this point in time it is unproven. Even less valid is the notion that eye exercises could have any impact on any eye disease; there is not a shred of evidence in any reputable medical journal even remotely addressing this modality. So eat your veggies but only because you like the way they taste; then again, I’ve never seen a rabbit wearing eyeglasses.
