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As age-related macular degeneration affects a major proportion of our patients, it is in this area that much interest has been focused in recent years. There are many risk factors for AMD, some non-modifiable (age, genetic make up, ethnicity and so on) and some modifiable (smoking is the major controllable risk factor). There are many so-called putative risk factors where increasing evidence is being gathered as to the exact influence of the factor on the disease. Nutrition and diet is increasingly seen as one modifiable risk factor and patients, spurred on often by less than scientific pronouncements in the popular press, expect us to offer the best advice.
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