Apple of your eyes

It has long been suggested that fruits and vegetables--and the antioxidant vitamins and carotenoids they contain--can help prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD). But the latest research suggests that only those eating three or more servings of fruit per day--not vegetables enjoyed protection against AMD. In fact, people who ate three items of fruit per day had a 36 percent decreased risk of AMD.

This massive epidemiological study by Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers involved more than 118,000 participants and is considered sound. Details appeared in the June 2004 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.

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