In the past, diabetes was never such a big epidemic like it is today. People often thought of diabetes as simply a body condition where one must reduce one?s sugar and fat intake. Little did people know that diabetes could end up causing blindness!
Now that diabetes is reaching epidemic levels in most of the western world, this problem is becoming more and more serious. Vision is one of our most critical senses and in this "need for speed" information era, over 70% of our sensory information comes through our eyes. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, diabetics are 25 times more likely to lose vision than those who are not diabetic.
With diabetes already being the number one cause of blindness in the United States, it's no wonder eye care profe View the rest of this article
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