Now, Eating Pizza Makes You Go Blind
A study has found a link between macular degeneration and diet:
... eating carbohydrate-rich food with a high glycemic index — a measure of a food’s potential to raise blood glucose levels — is associated with the development of the disorder.
The study found that foods made with simple carbs—cheese pizza, cakes, cookies—had a high glycemic index while those with complex carbs—brown rice, barley, many veggies—had a lower one, breaking down more slowly within the body.
“Sugar is fuel for the cells, but too much is destructive,” said Allen Taylor, the senior author of the paper and chief of the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research at Tufts University. “It is known from laboratory and animal studies that carbohydrates can damage the proteins in cells and affect their function. The sugars actually modify things, modify the proteins, and it’s the accumulation of this modified stuff that is poisonous to cells.”
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