"What I tell every patient that I see as they're walking out the door is that there are three things they can do every day to take care of their eyes, which [are] no smoking, eat a healthy diet and wear sunglasses any time they're outside, even when it's cloudy. … [This] is my parting wisdom to almost every patient I see."

Michelle Andreoli, MD, a clinical spokeswoman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), in a report published this week by Yahoo! Lifestyle.