I went to a party last night, and happened to talk to an eye doctor - an ophthalmologist.
He knew NOTHING about the the theory (which seems pretty well proven to me) that it's actually the consumption of vegetable oils that cause age-related macular degeneration.
It's what I write about in the below post.
My aunt went blind from this disease - avoiding vegetable oils can prevent it
He had no idea, nothing, absolutely zero, hadn't even heard of this theory. He talked about macular degeneration only being discovered in the 1940's, but said that it's just because they weren't testing for it.
Here's the partial story on this, from CureAMD.org
Sir Stewart Duke-Elder. Duke-Elder was a British ophthalmologist, London, England. He would become perhaps the most esteemed ophthalmologist — the most dominant force in ophthalmology — for about the next forty years or so.
Nineteen-twenty-seven (1927) — published his first comprehensive textbook of ophthalmology: 340 pages — not a single word regarding macular degeneration. Not a word.
And yet, thirteen years later, in 1940, he published his next textbook of ophthalmology. And in this one, he dedicated 13 pages to the condition of macular degeneration, 17 images, six of which were in full-color, and he called macular degeneration ‘a common cause of failure in central vision in old people.’ That’s a quote. So in the 1920s he wasn’t seeing macular degeneration but in the 1930s, he was.
Well, I'm sorry, but people before the 1940's weren't idiots. If there had been an epidemic of older people going blind or partially blind, it would have been something that was written about and researched.
It seems that there's a deliberate stepping away from all the evidence proving that it's our current diet which is causing many of the diseases of civilization (cancer, heart disease, macular degeneration, etc).
Anyone who wants more information on this, a classic text is "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Dr. Weston A. Price, published in 1939. You can find it on Annas-archive.org (https://annas-archive.org/search?index=&page=1&sort=&display=&q=Nutrition+and+Physical+Degeneration+by+Dr.+Weston+A.+Price)