Ocular Nutrition

What are facts and what is fiction of good ocular nutrition. Can taking eye supplements or vitamins help your eyes or increase your ocular health?

Answers to these types of questions may be found here. Here's to your ocular health with sound nutrition!

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Eating a healthy well-balanced diet should be a part of your eye health management plan.

Eye health is an important part of your overall health program.

Please consult your health care professional or a qualified nutritionist before making major changes to your diet.

Be aware that some foods may interact with prescription drugs and may not suit your medical conditions.

Antioxidants are important to our eye health

Antioxidants are found in many of the foods we eat. When your cells turn food and oxygen into energy they also produce 'free radicals.'

These are thought to be a contributing factor in the cause of AMD and other diseases. If your system is operating at peak health the free radicals are neutralized by antioxidants before they can cause any damage.

Check out these pages to the left for what vegetables and fruits provide the right nutrients for good eye health.

Also remember: You should see an eye doctor at least once per year if you have "normal" vision. Diseases like AMD can sneak up over time and once the symptoms appear it can sometimes become more difficult to treat.

Ask your doctor about ocular nutrition advice he has while you are there. Once you are armed with the facts you can start feeding your eyes so they will serve you better and longer.

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Here is some great information on what foods to eat that have been found to benefit the eyes
Ocular Nutrition Foods

It's very simple; first of all you need to protect yourself from sunlight. ...you need good sunglasses to block UVA [ultraviolet-A], UVB [ultraviolet-B] and possibly even blue light.

Second you want to make good dietary choices by avoiding saturated fats and Trans fats. Have the long chain omega 3 fats in your diet. You want to have the Green leafy's and the colorful foods and plants because they have the carotenoids and other important ingredients.

Dr. Able goes on in the interview to talk about smoking ; stress; sunglasses; draining lymphatics.

He also discusses the importance of Eye Vitamins for night vision; Bilberry; Lutein; protecting photoreceptors; zinc and making sure you have a "Total Package" for protecting the health of your eye's.

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