Processed foods, in addition to vegetable oils, are implicated in the rise of macular degeneration.

“if you look at the uh the history of uh age-related macro degeneration AMD um this is one of the first things I did um um because obviously if uh you know if this disease is driven by processed foods then when we didn't have any processed foods or they were extremely low AMD should have been rare and indeed that's what I found”

“and now it's not just vegetable oils but it's all the processed foods together”