Eating a Mediterranean diet has been shown
to help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer as well as decreasing the incidence
of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Recently, researchers tried to
determine whether eating a Mediterranean diet could provide help for dry eyes.
Reporting in the journal Cornea, the researchers had patients fill out a Block Food Frequency Questionnaire and a Dry Eye
Questionnaire, and then studied their tear film and measured its quality and
quantity along with each patient’s blood level of Vitamin D.
As much
as they would have liked to find that the Mediterranean diet helped dry eyes,
this turned out NOT to be the case. But,
they did find that higher vitamin D levels had a small but favorable effect on dry
eye syndrome symptoms. So, while the Mediterranean diet itself doesn’t directly
reduce dry eye symptoms, it does seem to be an eating plan that can help
promote health and prevent disease for your whole family.
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D'Ambrosio Eye Care provides eye care for patients throughout greater Boston, central and western Massachusetts with office locations at 479 Old Union Turnpike, Lancaster, Massachusetts 01523, 100 Powder Mill Road, Acton, Massachusetts 01720, 413 Main Street, Athol, Massachusetts 01331 and 74 Main Street, Gardner, Massachusetts 01440.
