Please join the Rochester Eye & Laser Center in recognizing February as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)/Low Vision Awareness Month. Our goal is to help educate the public about the risk factors associated with AMD, along with the treatment options available.

We hope it is common knowledge that many of the processed foods we find in the interior aisles of grocery stores – chips, cream-filled cakes and cookies, rows and rows of snack foods and candy bars – are simply not good for humans to regularly ingest, even in small quantities. Such “food-like substances” do not nourish us or support good health like the “whole” or “real foods” most often found in fresh produce departments around the perimeter of a store,