Exercise May Stave Off Macular Degeneration

If you can read this, good. Read it. The BBC reports that when researchers at the University of Wisconsin followed 4,000 men and women over 15 years, carrying out eye tests and recording levels of exercise, they found that those with an active lifestyle were 70 percent less likely to suffer from age related macular degeneration (AMD). The study, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, also found that regular walkers were 30 percent less likely to get the disease. Read more from the BBC.