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Earlier studies hinted that cataracts are associated with smoking, along with other factors, including exposure to ultraviolet light and the use of steroids and alcohol. But this is the strongest evidence yet. Researchers monitored nearly 18,000 male physicians and more than 50,000 female nurses for five and eight years respectively, asking about smoking behavior and checking the incidence of cataract surgery. The conclusion: men who smoked more than a pack a day ran twice the risk of nonsmokers for developing lenses cloudy enough to require their removal; women who so indulged had a 60% greater risk than their...
...that brave new world, people might pop vitamins C and E to deter the development of cataracts, the clouding of the lens in the eye that afflicts 20% of Americans over 65. Patients taking high doses of both vitamins appear to reduce the risk of cataracts by at least 50%, according to a Canadian study. Vitamin C may be especially efficient because it concentrates in the eye. Scientists at the National Eye Institute estimate that if cataract ; development could be delayed by 10 years, about half of cataract surgery could be eliminated...
...Buckley beams. He is hearing his favorite sound. Despite all his reservations about the bureaucratic process, he is upbeat. "They've taken a lot of the fun out of it," he says quietly, watching the black water roiling into white foam as it cascades over the steep rock cataract, "but it's still definitely worth doing...
...from a million spent matches. He wants to turn surplus against itself -- not in the friendly way of Kurt Schwitters or Robert Rauschenberg but with real bloody-mindedness. A Million Miles Away posits a world in which things are carried along, bobbing like corks, on a gross, value-free cataract of media imagery. The waves of magazines undulate with a glutinous, twining rhythm, and their movement seems irresistible: they are going to take over the gallery first, and then the world. Only the zebra seems above it all; but then, it cannot read...
...about 40. The pupil shrinks, reducing the amount of light reaching the retina. An 80-year- old's retina receives only about a sixth of the light that a 20-year-old's does. The lens hardens and clouds. More than half of those 60 and older have some cataract formation...