Fish Consumption Reduce the Risk of Blindness

Another recent study showed the benefits of eating fish. Women who frequently eat fish in their diet will have a lower risk of suffering from blindness at old age.

Eating fish should start a habit of eating patterns in the family because of his usefulness to health. A recent study showed that women who eat fish regularly have a lower risk of suffering from age-related macular degeneration disease (age-related macular degeneration / AMD), the eye disease that usually develops in people over 50 years. Besides fish, the same effect also applies to other types of food that contain omega-3 fatty acids

Conclusion This study represents the latest evidence on the relationship between fish oil protect each other and eye health has also concluded a number of previous studies that have found similar benefits. In this study, researchers from Harvard to do a diet analysis on more than 38,000 women.

"The data we collect observations still need to be confirmed in a randomized trial," said study author William G. Christen, a professor of preventive drugs division department of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, United States, as quoted healthday.com.

"But the messages that have been seen apparently simple and robust," Christen added. 

"Fish oils that contain omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, which have long been known to protect against heart disease also may provide significant benefits in the prevention of AMD for women who do not have or do not see the early signs of disease and for those who have not been diagnosed with AMD, "he continued.

Christen and his colleagues report their research results, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health United States.

This research will also appear in the print edition of the journal in June. AMD is caused by deterioration of performance and death of cells in the macula, the part of the retina that is used to look straight ahead. With the number of people with AMD will increase threefold within the next 25 years as the population ages, there is an urgent need to solve. 

The author notes, approximately 9 million adults over the age of 40 years in the United States have suffered from early-stage AMD. Most of them have early signs of disease, while about 1.7 million others have been suffering from advanced stages of diseases that result in serious vision loss is. 

To date there is no recognized method to prevent this disease, in addition to advising patients not to smoke so the slow developing AMD for those who do not have the disease or just showing early symptoms of disease. 

To find out how diet could serve as prevention of this disease, the researchers examined tens of thousands of food-related questionnaires completed by women who work professionally in the field of health who enrolled in studies related to heart disease and cancer prevention, called the Women's Health Study. 

No one man involved in this study. All participants were in the 40s age range at the time of registration in 1993. Among them no one with AMD since the beginning of the study. Eye health is also monitored for a decade, during which time about 235 women were eventually develop AMD. 

Team members observed that older women tend to consume higher amounts of both types of omega-3 fatty acids is docosahexaenoic acid / DHA and eicosapentaenoic acid / EPA, as well as omega-6 fatty acids (ie arachidonic acid and linoleic acid). 

Those who ate the largest amount of one or both of the omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA) are known to have a 38% lower risk of developing AMD compared with women who consumed less. 

The study found, more especially for women who consumed one or more servings of fish each week had 42% lower risk of suffering from AMD than those who ate fish just once a month or les