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"The main reason to diagnose and treat giant cell arteritis is to prevent blindness. Once blindness develops, it is usually permanent. Therefore, when a patient has symptoms and findings suggestive of temporal arteritis, therapy with prednisone, 60 mg daily, is initiated immediately, and a temporal artery biopsy is promptly obtained. Symptomatic relief is a useful, but not an absolute guide to disease activity. The dosage of steroid should only be adjusted under strict medical guidance. Blindness rarely occurs when the ESR has reached the normal range." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.)

"Another rare complication of Viagra is blindness. This is caused by a condition called nonarteric anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). NAION is caused when a blood vessel is blocked by a blood clot or atherosclerosis. Similar problems elsewhere in the body lead to heart attacks and strokes. But when the blood vessel leads to the optic nerve, vision loss or blindness in the eye can be the result. The FDA has received fifty or so case reports of the drug having causing NAION. This condition often clears by itself with time." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Vandana Shiva "The 'selling' of vitamin A rice as a miracle cure for blindness is based on blindness to alternatives for eliminating vitamin A deficiency, and blindness to the unknown risks of producing vitamin A through genetic engineering____The lower cost, accessible and safer alternative to genetically engineered rice is to increase biodiversity in agriculture." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"These headaches are preceded by a slowly expanding area of blindness surrounded by a sparkling edge; these symptoms can affect up to one-half of the field of vision of each eye. The blindness may resolve after twenty minutes, and is often followed by a severe one-sided headache with nausea, vomiting, hypersensitivity to light, and hypersensitivity to sound. Other temporary neurological symptoms, such as weakness on one side, may also occur. Migraine sufferers usually develop their own coping mechanisms for intractable pain." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Omega-3 Zinc Lutein The leading cause of blindness in adults under the age of sixty is diabetic retinopathy, caused by complications of long-term diabetes. But the leading cause of adult blindness and vision loss in adults over sixty is something called macular degeneration. And a few simple supplements can significantly reduce the risk of your ever getting it. You may recall from high school biology that the retina contains two types of photoreceptors—cones and rods." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"These headaches are preceded by a slowly expanding area of blindness surrounded by a sparkling edge; these symptoms can affect up to one-half of the field of vision of each eye. The blindness may resolve after twenty minutes, and is often followed by a severe one-sided headache with nausea, vomiting, hypersensitivity to light, and hypersensitivity to sound. Other temporary neurological symptoms, such as weakness on one side, may also occur. Migraine sufferers usually develop their own coping mechanisms for intractable pain." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged twenty to seventy-four. ?People with diabetes are nearly twice as likely to get glaucoma as other adults. ?Diabetes patients are twice as likely to get cataracts as people without diabetes. Cataracts also develop at an earlier age among people who have diabetes. ?Skin and urinary tract infections are more common among men and women who have diabetes. ?More than 60 percent of nontraumatic amputations of the lower limbs are performed on people who have diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"By simply controlling for the "degree of blindness" (analyzing the results of studies in which neither the depressed participants or those rating the participants' level of depression knew who was getting Prozac and who was getting a placebo), the power of what the media reports were daily heralding as a magic pill suddenly disappeared. In fact, "the average person treated with placebo did better than roughly one-third of the patients taking [Prozac]."37 Previous research had already found that the "degree of blindness" is a major determinant of study results." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"It is the seventh leading cause of death in the country, and is one of the most frequent causes of limb amputations, blindness, and kidney disease. This rate of death and disablement seems certain to climb, as America's diabetic children reach adulthood. Obesity The obesity epidemic tracks the 4-A epidemics, as well as the diabetes epidemic, and is closely related to them. One link among all of these disorders is the presence of inflammation, which is now regarded as a significant trigger of obesity. Obesity has doubled among children and adolescents during the past twenty years." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Diabetes can lead to kidney failure, heart disease, blindness, strokes, and limb amputations, as well as high-risk pregnancies and babies born with birth defects. The Children's Diabetes Foundation puts the cost of treating diabetes and its complications at more than $100 billion per year. And the crisis keeps getting worse. Type 1 diabetes, a genetic disease caused by a malfunctioning pancreas, used to be referred to as "juvenile diabetes." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "While oligoarticular JIA (what used to be called JRA) usually affects just a few joints, it can lead to a number of devastating complications in the eyes, including blindness. How do you diagnose arthritis in a child? Unfortunately, detection can be very difficult. The symptom of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, Dr. Kimura told me, is "usually pain or stiffness of one sort or another in one or more joints. Pain can be in almost any joint: in a leg, an arm, the hand joints, sometimes the spine." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Deficiencies cause night blindness or in severe cases, complete blindness. The units of vitamin A are given in retinol equivalents or RE (1 RE = 1 pg of retinol = 6 pg of |3-carotene = 12 pg of other carotenoids). The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin A is 800 pg or RE (about 0.8 mg of retinol or nearly 5 mg of (3-carotene per day). Overdoses resulting from the inappropriate or excessive use of vitamin supplements can be dangerous. Pigmented fruits (red and yellow) and green or yellow vegetables are the best natural sources of vitamin A." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"If retinopathy is not identified and treated early, it can result in blindness. Diabetic retinopathy develops slowly over time: about 90 percent of people who have diabetes for twenty-five years or longer have blood vessel damage in their eyes. Because retinopathy takes time to develop, you have an opportunity to prevent it, including the comprehensive strategy we describe in detail in part II." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "In diabetes, complications include blindness; loss of toes, feet, or legs; kidney failure; as well as a much greater risk of certain cancers, heart attack, and stroke. In fact, for those patients with diabetes who do little or nothing to reduce the risk of these complications, diabetes-related problems are a near certainty, not a theoretical possibility. The good news is that you can take steps today to ensure a future without diabetic complications or one in which the risk of developing the devastating complications of diabetes is greatly minimized." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"This results in scarring in the eye, which leads to gradual blindness. As the figure shows, it is related to the glycosalated hemoglobin, and seems to increase when the gylcosalated hemoglobin goes above 6.0. This National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III data was derived from looking at retinopathy and against fasting, Figure 4: Prevalence of retinopathy by deciles (Source: NHANES III) two hours postprandial, and HgbAlc." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "They found that high blood sugar levels led to complications such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. The key factors were being overweight and physically inactive, as well as having a diet that was not prudent. They concluded that all three were important and it was difficult to separate the risk of diet from the risk of being overweight and physically inactive. The study made crystal clear the importance of all three in creating Type-2 diabetes.84 Hyperinsulinemia, a metabolic time bomb, is associated with a whole series of chronic degenerative diseases." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Somewhere between 12,000 and 24,000 new cases of blindness per year are caused by diabetic retinopathy. About 60-70 percent of the people with diabetes have mild symptoms to severe forms of diabetic nerve damage. Neuropathy is the major cause of nontrauma lower limb amputation, and studies suggest that as many as 70 percent of amputees die within five years.83 Many people with diabetes have a "slow stomach" or gastric paresis. These conditions all seem to be associated with hyperinsulinemia (high blood insulin) and hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "This means that life-limiting complications such as kidney disease, heart disease, stroke, and blindness are now hitting people in the prime of their lives, in the middle of their most productive years. The projections by the Centers for Disease Control for children with Type-2 diabetes is that their life span will be shortened by nineteen years. The treatment of diabetes is further complicated by a belief system stated by the New York Times and backed by most doctors treating diabetes: "Diabetes has no cure. It is progressive and fatal." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Progression of diabetic retinopathy can lead to more severely impaired vision or blindness. diuretic: A drug or natural substance that increases the flow and elimination of urine. fasting blood glucose test: A test that identifies how much glucose is in the bloodstream that is used to screen for prediabetes and diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Even previous studies of antidepressants had found that "the degree of blindness is crucial... the blinder the study participants are to who is getting the active drug and who is getting the placebo, the more modest the advantage for antidepressants becomes [emphasis mine]."39 That was the conclusion of an analysis of 22 antidepressant studies which controlled for degree of blindness. In fact, when just patients' own ratings of their depression were considered, the placebos did just as well as did the antidepressants." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"It most commonly causes conjunctivitis in the baby and can also cause blindness in newborns. Other complications can include increased risks of spontaneous abortion, premature labor, early rupture of the fetal membranes, and perinatal infant mortality. As many as 30 to 60 percent of women with gonorrhea are also infected with chlamydia,10 and therefore gonorrhea and chlamydia should be tested together. Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea The U.S." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"It's a case of what I would call clinical blindness. The mounting research on the neurological and psychological benefits of exercise seems to be hidden in plain sight. Interestingly, it was the cardiologists who spoke up. The NEJM published a letter from doctors Carl Lavie and Richard Milani of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans. It read, in part, that the author "discusses generalized anxiety disorder and its treatment with pharmacologic agents and psychotherapy. We are surprised, however, that there is no mention of exercise as an additional means of treating anxiety." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Prenatal and infant mercury exposure, for example, can cause mental retardation, cerebral palsy, deafness, and blindness. Even in low doses, mercury may affect a child's overall development, delaying walking and talking, shortening attention span, and causing learning disabilities. Lead exposure presents a unique situation. Because lead is similar to calcium in structure, it takes the place of calcium during the development of the nervous system in a growing fetus. The results can be devastating, causing serious disorders that are echoed in later behavioral and learning problems." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The sun is now considered the main culprit for causing skin cancer, certain cataracts leading to blindness, and aging of the skin. Only those who take the "risk" of exposing themselves to sunlight find that the sun actually makes them feel better, provided they don't use sunglasses, sunscreens or burn their skin. The UV-rays in sunlight actually stimulate the thyroid gland to increase hormone production, which in turn increases the body's basal metabolic rate. This assists both in weight loss and improved muscle development." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"You may be having an attack of acute glaucoma (a sudden increase in eye pressure), which, without prompt treatment, can lead to blindness. YELLOW EYES Having red eyes is one thing, but when the whites of our eyes turn yellow, it may conjure up images of aliens or the devil. Yellow eyes are a hallmark of jaundice, a condition in which the skin and eyes turn yellow from too much bilirubin, an orange-yellow pigment in the blood. Jaundiced eyes are often warning signs of serious liver disease, such as hepatitis, cirrhosis, or liver cancer." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "A retinal detachment is a medical emergency requiring immediate attention—undiagnosed and untreated, it can lead to permanent blindness. DANGER SIGN If you have a sudden change in vision—especially if you start seeing double or things start to look blurry—call your doctor right away or head to the emergency room. If you've had a recent injury to your head or face, it may be a sign of a concussion. If not.it still may signal a serious condition that requires immediate medical attention." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness and of kidney failure in American adults. And having diabetes greatly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Beta-carotene's powerful antioxidant actions help provide protection against macular degeneration and the development of cataracts, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. Tips on Using Carrots SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Carrots that are deep orange in color contain the most beta-carotene. • Avoid carrots that are cracked, shriveled, soft, or wilted. • Carrots are best kept refrigerated in the crisper section, but don't store them with fruits. Fruits produce ethylene gas as they ripen. This gas will decrease the storage life of the carrots." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"What causes such professional blindness toward the adverse effects of psychiatric drugs? In many instances there is probably nothing more at work than the human tendency to deny responsibility for causing harm. However, the prevalence of professional denial of adverse drug reactions ultimately results from the iron grip of the psychopharmaceutical complex on medicine and psychiatry." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

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