Best Foods to Improve Eyesight & Eye Health; Which Foods Prevent Cataract and Macular Degeneration
Sep 28, 2024
Best Foods to Improve Eyesight & Eye Health; Which Foods Prevent Cataract and Macular Degeneration
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In this lecture, I'll briefly talk about nutrition, specifically to help your overused eyes
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and to reduce the oxidative stress resulted from continued daily use of computers, cell phones
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and other electronic devices. So what is accidental stress? Think of oxidative stress as a rust on metal, eating away at metal and weakening it
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For human body, accidental stress occurs when there is an excess-free radicals in the body
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damaging body cells, proteins, and DNA, contributing to accelerated aging and diseases in your eyes, brain, and body
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Factors which are known to increase the risk of long-term oxidative stress include
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exposure to radiation, which I talked about earlier, obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption, certain drugs
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exposure to pesticides or industrial chemicals, pollution, diets, high in fat, sugar, and processed foods
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Psychological and emotional stress is also known to increase axiative stress. If you want to decrease oxytore stress, you want to reduce your exposure to EMF radiation
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from electronic devices as much as you can. Certain lifestyle changes such as maintaining a healthy body weight, regularly exercising, and
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eating balanced, healthful, plan-based diet, rich in fruits and vegetables definitely helps
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Your visual system, your eyes and brain, consumes more than 20, 65% of the nutrition your body observes
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The eyes consume energy and nutrients faster than anywhere else in the body
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In fact, the healthy eye needs vitamin C more than any other organs in the body
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Therefore if you work at a computer a lot and want to keep your eyes and body healthy then it even more important to eat foods that are high in nutrients especially anti to reduce oxidative stress
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and help protect your body cells by removing free radicals before they cause damage
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So what nutrients do you need to reduce accidental stress? Before I talk about what foods you want to consume
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I'll briefly mention the types of food you want to avoid, You know this, but here's a reminder
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You want to avoid foods and substances which produce oxidative stress. The foods to avoid include processed foods, refined sugar and flour, artificial sweeteners
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food dye and editives, hydrogenate fats such as margarine, baked goods, shortening
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microwave, popcorn, frozen pizza, and fried foods. Smoking and excess alcohol consumption, constrict blood vessels, and dehydrate your eyes
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and body. They are also known to deplete your body's viral nutrients, including anti-accidents
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especially vitamin C if you smoke. Thus further accelerate the oxidation process
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which means your eyes, brain and body age faster. Food is good for your eyes. Getting enough anti-accidents in your diet is important to
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protect against accidental damage to your eyes and your whole body. body
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Examples of anti-accidents include baraccharotin, which converged vitamin A as needed by the
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body, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, zinc, lycopene, lyrin, lurion, ziagenten. Out of these antioxidants, barracuritin, lurion, ziagentin are especially essential for
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your eyesight and eye health. So where do you get these essential nuisance for your eyes The foods which provide you baracrotin lurion and zagentin are colorful fruits and vegetables especially with those with yellow orange blue red and purple color
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Lefiguring vegetables have even greater amount of rurion and zyazenten. Examples of food that are high in anti-oxid are just about all the fruits and vegetables
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except white potatoes. Fruits include apricots, bananas, all the berries, cantaloupe, citrus, lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, eggs, kiwi, mangoes, papaya, plums, watermelon
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Vegetables include rougula, asparagus, beets, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, celery, cilantro, color greens
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dandelion, kale, parsley, red cabbage, spinach, tomatoes, tomatoes, turnip greens. I call colorful fruits, colorful vegetables, and leafy green vegetables, super food for your eyes
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because they help increase the levels of protective pigments in the retina
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allowing you see better and keep your eyes healthy. Simple foods also deactivate free radicals
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and protect you against oxidative degradation and cell damage from EMF radiation
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thus enhance the health of your eyes and body. The best way to consume these produce is eating fresh
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to get more enzymes, fiber, and nutrients. Consuming enough leafy green vegetables can be a chore
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The best and fastest way to consume leafy vegetables is in fresh juice format
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Besides colorful fruit and vegetables, nutgencies such as almonds, Brazilian nuts, cashew nuts, flaxis, hemp seeds, pecans, pistachios, pumpkin seeds, sesame
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seeds, and walnuts also contain significant amount of antioxidants as well as providing
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new protein healthy fat B vitamins vitamin E and minerals such as magnesium potassium calcium iron and zinc Flexes pheropsis and walnuts also contain omega fatty acids Brazilian nuts are a good source of selenium which is good for your thyroid as well
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Blue-green algae, such as priluna and E3 live from Oregon State in US, is very high in many nutrients and is loaded with powerful anti-accidents, which can protect against oxidative damage
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All of these plan-based foods I mentioned above will also help you stay healthier, as they don't have any
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cholesterol thus better for your cardiovascular system. Prevent caravac in your eyes and help
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you taste it too. Additional herbs and spices that have been shown to help protect
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against oxidative damage include olive leaf, oregano, rosemary, sage, phenol, ginkobelabra, plopolis collected by bees, garlic and tumatic
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Water. Water is a vital. natural nutrient and a building material to every cell in the body, especially to your eyes
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99% of your eye is consists of water. Did you know that? Water helps lubricate the eyes
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helps bloodstream to deliver oxygen and nutrients to your eyes, and all of the body, and assist
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flushing waste from your body. Therefore, to keep your eyes and body healthy and see well
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drink plenty of water. General guideline is one half of your weight in ounce. For example
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If you weigh 160 pounds, then you want to drink at least 8 ounce, which is 10 cups of water
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Remind you that coffee and tea dehydrate you further. Thus, if you have to drink coffee, drink at least twice as much as water afterwards
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Drink on a filtered spring of pure water. Avoid tap water, because tap water contains chlorine, which can be toxic to your eyes and body
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