Low fat diets

[cristinalatina]

Greetings friends,

I am writing to ask you whether you've had an experience with low-fat diets drying your eyes out.

I am following a very low fat diet to maintain low levels of body fat.

Unfortunately my eyes got drier, so I started supplementing with Theratears Nutrition daily.

Do you believe that measure is enough? I eat little pure dietary fat, maybe a tablespoon of olive oil, and few low fat animal products.

Thank you,

Cristina

[tearless2]

It's interesting that you mention this. My dry eyes started after I went on a low fat diet and lost a lot of weight -- I was skinnier than I had been in 10-15 years. However, I don't know if this diet was necessarily a cause because at the time I was also 8 months post partum, breastfeeding, and wearing my contacts a lot. So, I don't know how much hormones and contact wearing affected my dry eye.

It's hard to tell.

[cristinalatina]

hi tearless, and sorry to hear about your trouble!

I'm definitely not saying that the problem can be caused entirely by diet - mine is due to LASIK surgery. However, I am wondering whether eating fat other than olive oil or omega-3s, helps dry eye. Do "bad fats" also help? because these are the ones I gave up

I have lowered my body fat a great deal myself with the low fat diet, also by eating tremendous amounts of fruit and vegetables. I had tried low carb diets that some people here recommend, but I was feeling bad without carbs and they did not work for me. I am not sure whether my dry eye was exacerbated or not since then, but I do have persistent SPK.