Keeping Your Eyes Healthy
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Keeping Your Eyes Healthy
A diet plentiful in spinach, kale, collard greens and broccoli, foods rich in lutein (a yellow carotene that is also concentrated in your retinas) can offer incredible help in keeping your eyes healthy. Studies confirmed that macular degeneration, the progressive deterioration of the central retina, was less for those who ate more lutein and other carotene-dense foods. Dr. Steven Pratt of Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, CA, says that is because, "Lutein in the lens acts as nature's own sunglasses because lutein and a related cartotene (zeaxanthin), produced by the body from lutein, absorb blue light, the most dangerous type of light for the eyes."
Recommended daily supplements include Lutein (6 mg), carotenes (5,000 to 10,000 IU) to help prevent cataracts, zinc (30 mg), Vitamin A (5,000 IU), Vitamin C (500 mg) and Vitamin E (400 IU).
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