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For Your Eyes’ Sake

People battling the effects of age have yet another incentive to get off the couch: Exercise may protect against the most severe form of age-related macular degeneration. Writing in the current British Journal of Ophthalmology, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that regular exercise seems to stave off the “wet” form of AMD, in which blood vessels in the eye leak fluid, eventually causing vision loss.