Macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness in Australia but new research suggests avoiding vegetable oils could prevent the condition.

 

It's spreading like a disease - a blindness called macular degeneration affecting at least 800,000 Australians and costing $1.5 billion per year in health care.

 

But with the latest research pointing to vegetable oils as the main culprit, it's possible we may be able to fend off this disease by simply changing our diets.

 

You might not cook with vegetable or canola oil but take a look at the ingredients in any sauce, dip, bread, margarine or biscuit - any processed food for that matter. Vegetable oil is hidden in all of them.

 

Most of us have been consuming these processed foods from the time we could walk. Dr Paul Beaumont from the macular degeneration Foundation has been studying the link.

 

"[The research] showed that people eating vegetable oil got the disease

by Anna Coren

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