The Potential of Low GI Diet as a Vision Saviour

Even as 20-20 vision is a sign of clear-sightedness, in-between present times and a decade later, increasing numbers of individuals would develop some degree of eyesight failure because of AMD or age-related macular degeneration and several other vision-marring ailments.

Presently, investigators from the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research have found that healthful eating patterns could lower not merely healthcare expenses, but, additionally, the declining quality of existence because of such ailments. Funding for this study has been backed by the ARS (Agricultural Research Service).

A research finding has suggested that regular consumption of a merger of shielding nutrient types and a slow-carb or low GI diet offered a shielding effect from age related macular degeneration. GI or glycemic index of a food is a sign of how soon the carb constituent present in it would cause a surge in blood glucose levels.

Macula is a three mm wide yellow-spot located close to the retinal core and accountable for the central field of vision.

During the research, investigators evaluated dietetic consumption and other information from over four thousand people from both genders in the age band of fifty-five years to eighty years old who were participants of the long-standing AREDS (Age-Related Eye Disease Study). The study helmed by Chung-Jung Chiu, involved ranking the consumption of every one of the many nutrient types eaten at the time of the AREDS research followed by computation of a compound scoring for gauging their merged dietetic impact on AMD risk. The tallying system facilitated evaluation of the links in-between personal and merged dietetic nutrient types.

The nutrient types observed to have the maximal shielding effects in merger with the low GI diet were zeaxanthin, EPA, zinc, omega-3 fatty acids called as DHA, lutein, vitamin E, C. The research was printed in the journal ‘Ophthamology’.