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How To Seize Control Of Your Eyesight With Better Nutrition

Your diet is a very important part of your vision. Your ability to produce sight requires more than just energy in the form of calories, but a whole host of differnet micronutrients. You can help prevent eye diseases and promote healthy, clear vision by making wise lifestyle choices such as eating well, reducing stress, exercising regularly, and not smoking.

Eye Vitamins Basics for Healthy Vision

So let us take a closer look at how your vision is affected by what you eat. Your visual system would hugely benefit from a fresh variety of food that is in its all-natural state, unaltered artificially. That means no processing, no added flavorings or preservatives for increasing shelf life. Gradually changing from the typical North American diet consisting of white bread, pasta, meat, cakes, pastries, soft drinks and coffee, to a regime that consists of mostly vegetables and fruits, wholemeal foods, and good fats. This can make a huge difference to the way we feel and the way we see.

Some vitamins are only found in very scarce quantities in food, so it’s a good idea to take them in extract/tablet form. Taking supplements is advisable in many cases in the modern era, due to the deficiency not only in our diets, but also in the very soil in which healthy food is grown. If you wish to avoid supplements however, then I highly advise you to consume sea vegetables. These gifts of nature contain some 10 to 20 times more nutrients than vegetation grown on land.

Improving one’s antioxidant consumption is a surefire way to enhanced vision. Research shows that antioxidants can be very helpful in keeping healthy eyes and vision.

Although there are those micronutrients that are good for all forms of eye disease, some eye diseases benefit more from one particular form of nutrition. So the first step for you to take is to see an eye doctor and find out what’s going on. Then adjust your diet accordingly. Your first port of call should be to see an eye specialist. This can be an optician or a doctor who specializes in eye disorders. Upon getting a diagnosis, you may then refer to a nutrition specialist.

Remember that natural sunlight is a nutrient that we all need. Ideally, spend an hour outside in natural light each day. You need not make it boring by just going out there and standing in the sun. Why not take the kids out, have a picnic or work out?

Eating for Good Nutrition Instead of for Comfort

You’re probably thinking right about now that it’s easier said than done. Eating food for comfort is the main reason we have poor nutrition. We are so tied in with all those bad foods we eat, that we get down and depressed as soon as we change to a healthy diet One good way to initiate a proper diet is simply to recognize what it is we are doing when we open that kitchen cupboard or refrigerator. Before reaching out for that bag of potato chips, stop and visualize the type of damage it would do to your eyes and your body, then visualize what an alternative healthy option would do, and how it will improve your health and vision.

A lot of the times food isn’t actually what your body is craving. So next time you feel hungry, try initially just drinking a glass of water to curb the hunger response. Sometimes you just need to keep busy, since it’s quite common to want to fill our free time with food.

Our eating habits begin very early in childhood. Isn’t it common for a child to be given something ridiculously unhealthy - like an ice cream - as a treat. ‘Treats’ were something we knew were not good for us. Now in my opinion the highs you get in the immediate sense from such foods is not worth the long term sequelae of poor health and deteriorating vision. As we learn how difficult it becomes to fix our own diets, it is time now to put an end to this - we must stop doing to our children what the previous generation did to us

Rather than completely avoiding all those foods you are used to in the outset, an excellent idea would be to simply supplement this bad food with a better variety. Have an apple and a glass of water before every meal, or a quarter of a head of romaine lettuce. Through this method, a renovation of your diet will occur more gradually and you will be less likely to fail.

The following article will discuss the topic of vision nutrition in more detail—> Natural Vision Improvement.