Dump Your Sugar Addiction, Avoid Age-Related Macular Degeneration
By Guest Blogger Anders Wedin, OD
A high sugar diet affects the body in many different ways, all of which put your health at risk. Widely known is the increased risk of obesity (defined by a high Body Mass Index or BMI), but an equally serious effect that is often neglected when discussing high sugary foods is the connection between excessive sugar ingestion and vision impairments. It is the intention of this article to explain how a “sugar addiction” can damage your vision severely.
There are several vision impairments that are directly caused by …read more

Isn’t McDonald’s something else? The word insidious comes to mind.
Their brilliant solution to our ever-widening youngsters in this country is to put fancy work-out areas in some of their outlets. To my way of thinking this is very disturbing.
What’s next, Cardiac Stress Testing at Pizza Hut?
I can understand offering salads…maybe…but fitness and fries?
I’m hoping nutritionists, dietitians, heart doctors, and fitness gurus will be all over this one.
Shouldn’t we be communicating that exercise is part of a balanced lifestyle — not a way to mitigate poor dietary choices?
In the McDonald’s scenario it seems as if the message is: burn …read more