The loss of hearing and sight might be the personification of old age. More than any other indicators we have come to associate diseases of the eye-cataracts, glaucoma, and macular degeneration-and loss of hearing with aging. But are diseases of the eye and hearing loss due to aging, consequently out of our hands? Or are these sensitive organs like the other organs of our body—heart, brain, kidneys—influenced by the foods we eat, at the mercy of the health of the arteries that feed them and the nutrients of the blood that bathes them?
The connection between nutrition and hearing is not a new idea. Research dates back to the 1930s and 1940s, but apparently few people have been listening. The connection between diet and vision decline is more recent but, like hearing, not many people have been watching.
Based on the evidence it appears we have made a blunder in assuming that association and cause are interchangeable words. The hope is after reading this Veg Report we will hear the bell toll and see the light.