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Regular exercise can stave off degenerative eye disease
10-30-2006 · EurekAlert!Regular exercise can cut the likelihood of developing the degenerative eye disease, age related macular degeneration by 70 percent, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
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