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Keep Your Eyes Sight Sharp With A Healthy Diet

According to research there are several diet tips on how to improve your eyesight. Depending on the condition of your eyesight, you can adopt certain diet to help improve your eyesight. But often times you can actually get more benefit with your diet especially when you strictly follow the routine. The worse thing that could happen is losing your vision. Anyone would not want to lose their vision, and for that you should seriously consider eating the right food.

Cataracts:

Eating a healthy diet can help prevent or slow down the development of age-related cataracts. Of course a healthy diet can also be helpful for cataracts caused by accidents. Although it cannot totally prevent the disease but it can help in slowing down the progress of which.

Any diet comes with healthy nutrient that can deter the disease of your eye. Vitamins and minerals rich in fruits and vegetables can dramatically increase or improve eye health.

Cook with red onions instead of yellow onions. It has quercetin which is rich in antioxidant property to help neutralize free radicals that causes cataracts.

Nuts and oils help bring Vitamin E into your diet: Examples are peanuts, safflower oils and almonds.

Eating spinach, kale and leafy vegetables also boost your level of zeaxanthin and lutein.

As much as possible eat fruits and vegetables that are color red, orange and bright yellow.

For vitamin C nutrition eat a lot of strawberries, grapefruits or oranges.

Glaucoma:

Glaucoma slowly causes damage to the optic nerve that is often so slow that many people may not even know they are slowly going blind. If not treated early it is can be impossible to treat. The damage comes from the slow build-up of the aqueous humor, which is the fluid surrounding the eye. It is not the aqueous humor that mainly causes the damage but the pressure that it builds up is the one that causes the optic nerve to shrink.

A diet rich in vegetables and fruits can help prevent the development of Glaucoma:

To avoid insulin increase, minimize or control sugar intake. It is said that insulin can promote poor eye sight.

Eat a lot of kale, collards, spinaches, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, or raw egg yolks. These food are rich in zeaxanthin, lutein and carotenoids. Cooked egg has lesser nutritional value compared to raw.

You can also integrate in your diet eating fish, or you can take Omega-3 based supplements. It is because Omega-3 oil is one hundred percent natural and comes from animals rather than purely synthesized oil in the lab.

Age-related Macular Degeneration:

Macular Degeneration is usually age-related, so it is sometimes referred to as ARMD (age-related macular degeneration.) This is a disease of the eye that occurs when the cells of the macula lutea are damaged. The patient suffers from blurry vision and may result to blindness.

Here are some recommendations by most doctors:

Take multi vitamins which can help reduce risks of disease.

Eat Bilberry jam on toast: Bilberries are the European version of the blueberry. Macular degeneration can be avoided when eating berries. A compound called anthocyanocide is present in berries and can boost the retina's protection. You can also avail food supplements made of bilberries.

Eat at least 1 cup of blueberry and yogurt: Blueberries are naturally rich in antioxidant that drives away free radicals in your cell.

Take Omega-3 supplements that are from Krill fish or eat fish every now and then.

We experience the world through our 5 senses. Through healthy diet and eating the right food we can protect our eye sight. Healthy foods is anywhere and all you have to do is shop for them. Supplements on the other hand are made available in drug and grocery stores.

But some people are limited or cannot eat certain foods because of their allergies. It is best to ask your doctor first before seeking for a nutrition alternative. But if worse comes to worse and a healthy diet might be too late, do not worry, doctors can still perform surgical operation to treat the disease.

If you feel that your sight is starting to blur, visit your doctor right away. If possible do a research yourself so that you can assess your doctor in answering questions. If in case that you are feel that something is wrong with your vision you might want to read articles online on how to prevent it the natural way. Or if the illness has progressed farther along, he may want to combine a healthy diet with either medication or surgery.

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