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A Link Between Diet and Myopia?

Posted by timothy on from the girls-also-cause-myopia dept.

lxmeister writes: "This article from New Scientist suggests that the refined starches in western food such as white bread and cereals may be the cause of an increased level of short-sightedness. Myopia now affects 30 percent of people of European descent. So brown bread is better after all!"

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  1. Re:Er, after all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Careful though, not all brown loaves are bread.

  2. Re:Gosh, maybe Grandma was right! by iammichael · · Score: 2, Funny
    and I quote: "The whiter the bread, the sooner you're dead"

    Doh, I say!

    Maybe that's why my mom always toasted my white bread until it turned black? Never could figure out her thing with burnt toast....