A good friend of my mother's has macular degeneration. My Mum has glaucoma and cataract. They see the same ophthalmologist. I know that Dr. Anwar is at the top of his field. He'd try anything he thought had a chance of helping a patient. Especially with macular degeneration, because the degree of sight loss is so great.
I know he's given Jean every help he can give. If there was any dietary advice that would make a difference, frankly I trust him and his colleagues to know about it. For goodness sake, it's not as if these evil allopaths are hiding the news of a beneficial diet from their patients because they think dietary treatment is woo-woo!
So my default position here is that there is no evidence that modifying your diet that can improve or slow the progress of macular degeneration. Until Dr Anwar tells Jean about it that is!
Now, myopia? Er, we do know the difference, do we? Macular degeneration is a severe progressive retinal disease of the elderly that results in total loss of central vision and will get you registered blind. Myopia is short-sightedness. Light not focussing on the (healthy) retina for some reason, correctable with glasses or contact lenses.
Hardenbergh, how can you possibly propose the idea that the same treatment might affect both conditions? Is it possible that you simply have no idea what you're talking about?
And never mind the aetiology, how might it be possible for any sort of diet to affect short-sightedness?
Please be prepared to justify any statements you make about the effects of any diet, and following a recommendation of it as "excellent" with vague and unsubstantiated claims about what it "should" do and then the lame remark that it's worth trying because it can't hurt, just won't cut it around here.
If Garry Kappel is paying you to promote his book, you'd better get a more carefully thought-through sales spiel.
Rolfe.
