On Friday, Dec 10, 2004, at 09:11 Asia/Tokyo, Ken Stuart wrote: > However, I never required reading glasses until I started low-carb, > and I found > that the more strictly I followed low-carb and paleo, the less likely > I was to > be able to read without glasses. It could have been a coincidence, > but it > appeared to me to be connected. > > How old are you, Ken? I started noticing that I had to peer over the tops of my glasses to focus on close up, tiny things about two years ago. My older students laugh at me, it seems I have passed a middle aged milestone in their eyes and am now an equal. :--) I am 43, and changes in eyesight are common at this age. I don't know how diet affects this, if it does. I recall working with poor peasant families, and how wonderful their eyesight was, even old people could see much better than me at a distance. Their diets are very poor, mostly corn and beans, with occasional veggies and fruits and meat as a treat. But their eyes were great. No TV, no computers, not much reading and writing. I think a big part of eye health is tied to how we use them. They also were outdoors most of the time, in full tropical sunlight, maybe that played a part. They sometimes asked me why all Gringos had such bad eyes, they thought it was a racial thing.