Diet and refractive characteristics.

Abstract

ABSTRACT Twenty monkeys which had been on a low protein diet (2.5—3%) for an average of 32 months are compared visually with eighteen monkeys which had been on a high protein diet (22—23%) for an average of 28 months. The range of visual refractive errors as well as the median and mean refraction are identical in the two groups even though other diet‐related characteristics (height, weight, growth and development and behavior) are significantly different.