Taking B vitamins can prevent vision loss

Cybergal · Feb 24, 2009

Study: Taking B vitamins can prevent vision loss

2/23/09

CHICAGO Taking B vitamins can prevent a common type of vision loss in older women, according to the first rigorous study of its kind. It's a slight redemption for vitamin supplements, which have suffered recent blows from research finding them powerless at preventing disease.
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people 65 and older, with nearly 2 million Americans in the advanced stage of the condition. It causes a layer of the eye to deteriorate, blurring the center of the field of vision and making it difficult to recognize faces, read and drive. There's no cure, but treatment, including laser therapy in some cases, can slow it down.
Preventing it has been more elusive.
"Other than avoiding cigarette smoking, this is the first suggestion from a randomized trial of a possible way to reduce early stage AMD," said William Christen of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who led the research. He said the findings should apply to men as well.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_he_me/med_eyes_vitamins
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themlilboots · Feb 24, 2009

I wish they would make up their minds on what these vitamins and minerals are good or bad for!....lol!

Cybergal · Feb 24, 2009

2Lilboots said: ↑

I wish they would make up their minds on what these vitamins and minerals are good or bad for!....lol!
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Isn't it amazing?

Iam going to keep taking mine...

Lilbit · Feb 24, 2009

I keep taking my iron supplements, I don't care what the studies say about vitamins and supplements.

themlilboots · Feb 24, 2009

I take a one a day, a zinc supplement, and my cod liver oil supplement and my soy protein powder that is considered a supplement. I don't know if this stuff really works. I did stop taking my glucosamine and chondroitin supplement as my joints do not ache anymore. I think that my body has adjusted to the work that I do now......

Mastertech · Feb 24, 2009

Good post, Cybergal!!!!

panhandlepat · Feb 24, 2009

they have been flip-flopping on vitamins for years LOL
vegetable-based vitamins have the best absorbtion rate but are far more expensive

Baack · Oct 14, 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Taking B vitamins is unlikely to prevent heart attack and stroke in people who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease, a new research review suggests.
The findings, based on eight clinical trials of more than 24,000 people, give added weight to current recommendations against using B vitamins as a way to prevent heart trouble.
The idea that B vitamins like folic acid, B-6 and B-12 might help prevent heart complications stems from the fact that they lower blood levels of an amino acid called homocysteine. Homocysteine levels are often elevated in people with atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque in the arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke.
However, researchers have not been sure whether high homocysteine levels actually contribute to atherosclerosis progression, or are merely a marker of heart risks. Suggesting the latter may be true, no clinical trial has proven that B-vitamin supplements prevent heart attack and stroke.
To help strengthen the evidence, the new review pulled together data from eight clinical trials testing the effects of folic acid, vitamin B-6, B-12 or some combination of the these supplements.
The trials involved 24,210 people with either established heart and blood vessel disease -- atherosclerosis or a history of stroke, heart attack or other heart complications -- or major risk factors for it, like diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
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