Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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Nutritional and Environmental Influences on the Eye(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Taylor & Francis Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0849385652 (ISBN 10) and 9780849385650 (ISBN 13).

Significant advancements in nutrition's impact on the eye have occurred faster than any volume can document... until now. This book gives the background and rationale regarding the physiological damage caused by biological oxidants as well as the rationale for the protective roles for nutrient-antioxidants and how they affect the risk for cataracts.This volume also contains information on how to quantitatively assess age-related diseases of the eye including cataracts and age-related maculopathy. Smoking and light exposure as factors for age-related eye diseases as well as the utility of potential anticataract pharmaceuticals is discussed.