Vitamins to Improve Eyesight Give Blurry Results

Since you were a child, you have been told to “eat your carrots, so you can see better.” It has been thought for generations that beta carotene can be taken to better increase your eyesight, but a recent study proves otherwise. Study co-author Dr. William Christen at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston gave 21,000 male doctors 50 milligrams of beta carotene every other day or a placebo, the doctors not knowing which they received. The progress was monitored over an average 12 year period. According to MSNBC.com, “Roughly the same number of doctors in both groups developed the eye condition, suggesting beta carotene didn’t help or hurt. After 12 years, there were 162 cases of macular disease in the beta carotene group and 170 cases in t View the rest of this article