Natural Eye Health Starts And Ends With Your Diet
Natural eye health starts and ends with your diet, it is as simple as that. Having the right amount of vitamins and minerals in your diet is paramount to maintaining healthy eyes and vision. Of course any doctor will suggest that you should eat a balanced diet anyway, to maintain good overall health.
“Sure,” I can hear you say, “but what is it that I should be eating?”
There are specific food items that you can eat to ensure good natural eye health. Mainly, you will need to concentrate on the vitamins A, C, and E as they are an excellent source of antioxidants. Food items that contain these vitamins include:
- oranges
- kiwis
- grapefruit
- dried apricots
- tomatoes
- peppers
- raw carrots
- green leafy vegetables including kale and spinach
- green peas
- green beans
- Brussels sprouts
These vitamins can also be found in nuts, seeds, dairy products and eggs.
Also, there are two antioxidants which are very important to natural eye health, called Lutein and Zeaxanthin.
Lutein and Zeaxanthin are naturally found in fruits and vegetables. For example, Lutein can be found in yellow peppers, mango, bilberries, and leafy green vegetables such as spinach, kale, broccoli and chard. Zeaxanthin can be found in broccoli, orange sweet peppers, sweet corn, spinach, lettuce oranges, tangerine and eggs. Many of these food types overlap in foods where vitamins A, E and C are present.
Including some, or all, of these into your diet will make sure that your eyes stay in good health as well as your whole body.
Finding ways to incorporate all of these vegetables into your diet can be very time consuming and expensive. Here’s where you can find a simple, inexpensive way to get all the nutrients your body needs for optimum eye health.
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Hi Joey,
Known as the ultimate eye vitamin, Vitamin A is absolutely essential for eye and vision health. In our bodies, vitamin A is required by the retina for its proper functions – in fact, one of the two sources of dietary vitamin A goes by the name “retinoids.”
The other source is carotenoids, obtained from fruits and vegetables containing yellow, orange, and dark green pigments, including that old standby, beta-carotene. When Mom told you to eat your carrots for good vision, she wasn’t kidding!
Vitamin A is necessary for the production of rhodopsin, the visual pigment used in low light levels. One of the causes of night blindness is vitamin A deficiency; supplements of that vitamin are often recommended for those with poor night vision, along with a diet emphasizing Vitamin A-rich foods, such as sweet potatoes, carrots, mangoes, spinach, and cantaloupe.
Vitamin A also helps:
- Your eyes adjust to light changes
- Moistens the eyes, which can enhance visual acuity
- It has been shown to prevent the forming of cataracts
- It has been shown to help prevent blindness from macular degeneration.
To your vision — for life,
Orlin