Natural Eye Care Blog: News & Research on Vision

Healthy cooking can help protect your eyes, brain, heart, and overall wellness. The way you choose, prepare, cook, and store food can affect nutrient levels, toxin exposure, inflammation, blood sugar balance, and long-term disease risk. Simple choices, such as using safer cookware, limiting aluminum exposure, choosing fresh or frozen foods over canned foods, and cooking with ...

New study finds link between microplastics and heart disease. The tiny pieces of plastic flake off water bottles, chip off cutting boards, rinse out of polyester blouses and coffee pods, and come from many other objects. These do not only build up in the environment, but also accumulate in the body.

A 2024 study found that microplastics make their way into the arterial...

The microscopic parasite cyclospora cayetanensis has been found recently on lettuce in the USA. Cyclosporiasis is a gastrointestinal illness that spreads by consuming contaminated, raw produce. This infection is often traced to fresh herbs and leafy greens, such as mesclun and iceberg lettuce, that are exposed to tainted irrigation water.

A multistate outbreak ...

Research on the dangers of artificial sweeteners continues to roll out. A 2026 Tufts University review and meta-analysis compared studies of artificial and low-calorie sweeteners with non-caloric options. 1 The researchers found that artificial sweeteners increased fas...

Eye conditions such as macular degeneration can sometimes lead to visual hallucinations. A visual hallucination means seeing something that is not really there.

The eyes send visual signals to the brain, and the brain interprets them. When vision loss reduces the amount of information reaching the brain, the brain may fill in the missing visual details. This can cause ...