Eating just one orange a day could prevent a common cause of blindness, new research suggests.

Snacking on the popular citrus fruit reduces people’s risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which affects central vision, by 60 per cent, a study found.

Lead author Professor Bamini Gopinath, from the University of Sydney, said: “The data shows that flavonoids found in oranges appear to help protect against the disease.


“Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants found in almost all fruits and vegetables, and they have important anti-inflammatory benefits for the immune system.”

Despite flavonoids also being found in other produce such as apples, for unclear reasons, only antioxidants in oranges protect against sight loss.

Previous studies focussed on the effect that common nutrients such as Vitamin C,E and A have on the eyes.

But Professor Gopinath’s study took a new approach.

She said: “Our research is different because we focused on the relationship between flavanoids and macular degeneration.


“Flavanoids are powerful antioxodants found in almost all fruits and vegetables, and they have important anti-inflammatory benefits for the immune system.”

The researchers analysed 2,037 adults with an average age of 49 for up to 15 years.

The participants’ diets were assessed via food questionnaires.

Results suggest that eating oranges protects against AMD compared to never snacking on the fruit.

Professor Gopinath added: ‘Even eating an orange once a week seems to offer significant benefits.’

The researchers plan to investigate what genetic and environmental factors cause eye diseases to occur.

The findings were published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

http://www.akelicious.net/2018/07/eating-just-one-orange-daily-reduces.html

Good to know meanwhile, I will increase to three oranges so as to be 100% save from blindness.

In other news
FTC : Federal Territory Capital.

they will come with another one now eating overdose of orange might get you crippled...

Orange......Here I Come!

Orange is not my favorite fruits but because of its importance I lick them every week. Same with every other important fruit.

Wow, Nice share.

My best fruit.

The INSPECTOR GENERAL of police would need an overdose of oranges to avoid "transmitting-transmission".

Time to buy more orange from Aboki

Good one but orange fruit is seasonal

..i no kno wetin do my orange tree. For d past 2yrs wey e start to produce fruit na very few, about 5 oranges yearly, but dem Sweet .... This year wey e come produce plenty, about 100, the fruits no different from Lime Wetin cause am??
Any solution??

Ok

Nice one

Na so



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Tomorrow now another person will say it wrong to take orange daily.

Op is an orange seller

Good

These ones have come again with throwing unsubstantiated figures around. Op, I'm still expecting a report on how drinking two glasses of water after a meal increases the chance of contacting HIV by 23.56%




Wubbish!!!!

johnmba:
Tomorrow now another person will say it wrong to take orange daily.

It's wrong actually
https://www.livestrong.com/article/492835-the-disadvantages-of-eating-oranges/

Orange always purge me.

I go finish all the oranges wey dey my village be that now

phemmie06:
Good one but orange fruit is seasonal

its always available. just that in the dry season its not always as watery as in the rainy season

phemmie06:
Good one but orange fruit is seasonal

its always available. just that in the dry season its not always as watery as in the rainy season

phemmie06:
Good one but orange fruit is seasonal

its always available. just that in the dry season its not always as watery as in the rainy season

Which kain lie be this

Jorkpast:
its always available. just that in the dry season its not always as watery as in the rainy season its always available. just that in the dry season its not always as watery as in the rainy season its always available. just that in the dry season its not always as watery as in the rainy season

Correct. My grandmother like orange so tey she no wan hear say e no watery ooo. Lol. She go even suck unripe one join and say d thing go kill the worms for her belle.

Which of the oranges is the OP referring to?

So when orange don scarce for market make all us of go blind abi? Nonsense people with stupid research

inoki247:
they will come with another one now eating overdose of orange might get you crippled...

lol

akelicious:
Eating just one orange a day could prevent a common cause of blindness, new research suggests.

Snacking on the popular citrus fruit reduces people’s risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which affects central vision, by 60 per cent, a study found.

Lead author Professor Bamini Gopinath, from the University of Sydney, said: “The data shows that flavonoids found in oranges appear to help protect against the disease.


“Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants found in almost all fruits and vegetables, and they have important anti-inflammatory benefits for the immune system.”

Despite flavonoids also being found in other produce such as apples, for unclear reasons, only antioxidants in oranges protect against sight loss.

Previous studies focussed on the effect that common nutrients such as Vitamin C,E and A have on the eyes.

But Professor Gopinath’s study took a new approach.

She said: “Our research is different because we focused on the relationship between flavanoids and macular degeneration.


“Flavanoids are powerful antioxodants found in almost all fruits and vegetables, and they have important anti-inflammatory benefits for the immune system.”

The researchers analysed 2,037 adults with an average age of 49 for up to 15 years.

The participants’ diets were assessed via food questionnaires.

Results suggest that eating oranges protects against AMD compared to never snacking on the fruit.

Professor Gopinath added: ‘Even eating an orange once a week seems to offer significant benefits.’

The researchers plan to investigate what genetic and environmental factors cause eye diseases to occur.

The findings were published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

http://www.akelicious.net/2018/07/eating-just-one-orange-daily-reduces.html

Dumb research. Correlation doesn't imply causation.

But the article does not say what the thread title says. It only indicates that it reduces the risk of the ailment by 60%, not blindness.

post=69479071:
An Orange and A Barbecue a day, keeps the Doctor away!

Hmmm