The food you eat may fend off age-related macular degeneration(AMD)

by The Rochester Eye & Laser Team on May 3, 2018 5:39:00 AM

Close to the center of your retina, at the back of your eye, is a small area known as the macula. The macula gives you sharp, central vision to do things like see straight ahead of you, and recognize people's faces. 

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Is the food you eat hurting your eyes?

by The Rochester Eye & Laser Team on Jul 14, 2016 2:40:19 PM

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,

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