Nutritional Blindness (Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders) -- Cataract -- Age-Related Macular Degeneration -- The Obesity Epidemic -- Nutrition and Diabetic Retinopathy -- Retinal Vascular Disease -- Nutritional Amblyopia and B Complex Vitamin Deficiencies -- Zinc and Eye Health -- Vitamin C and Eye Health -- The Age-Related Proinflammatory State and Eye Disease -- Essential Fatty Acids and Visual Development in Infants -- Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

The Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology is the first general text on nutrition and eye health created for physicians, nutritionists, and researchers. Dr. Richard D. Semba provides important links between the epidemic of obesity and implications it has for eye disease and blindness. The volume addresses three broad themes throughout. The first is that a healthy diet as a major lifelong habit will likely have an impact on reducing a substantial portion of visual impairment and blindness. The second is that a historical perspective is essential to understanding current challenges in ophthalmology, medicine, and public health. The third theme is that many nutrients play a role in oxidative stress and inflammation, and this theory has emerged as a major underlying hypothesis in the pathogenesis of eye diseases. The volume also includes chapters addressing nutritional aspects of preventing eye disease in diabetes mellitus and other optical neuropathies, making the Handbook of Nutrition in Ophthalmology a unique book for a broad spectrum of physicians and practitioners.