Blindness Caused By A Junk Food Diet
The study titled blindness caused by a junk food diet was published in the annals of internal medicine and the case of the patient was examined by clinician scientists from bristol medical school and the bristol eye hospital.
Blindness caused by a junk food diet. Harrison r 1 warburton v 2 lux a 3 atan d 4. Blindness caused by. Poor diet can lead to blindness case. The researchers concluded that the patient s junk food diet and limited intake of nutritional vitamins and minerals resulted in the onset of nutritional optic neuropathy.
A 14 year old boy presented to his family practitioner with. Opinions expressed by forbes contributors are their own. 1 bristol eye hospital university hospitals bristol nhs foundation trust bristol united kingdom r h. To alert clinicians of visio risks associated with a diet restricted to junk food case report.
He was clearly getting enough calories but not nutrients. The case involves a teen believed to be the uk s first such case who slowly lost. Not everyone may see the risks of a junk food diet. When the problems started he seemed on the outside like a.
Popular media have highlighted the risks for poor cardiovascular health obesity and cancer associated with junk food but poor nutrition can also permanently damage the nervous system particularly vision objective. How a junk food diet caused blindness in a teen. It s the most serious case i ve ever seen of blindness caused by junk food. A new study has found that a british boy was left blind due to a junk food diet.
Blindness caused by a junk food diet. Annals of internal medicine 2019. Uk teenager s blindness caused by junk food diet file image. A teenager reportedly went deaf and blind due to his junk food diet according to a study released on monday.
A teen s strict diet of fries chips and other junk foods slowly caused him to go blind.