Eating well....to help with eye disorders

Eating well continues the focus on health issues where food and nutrition have a critical role.

The role of antioxidant nutrients and bioflavonoids in vision loss and other degenerative problems associated with ageing is becoming better understood. With advancing age, the production of free radicals, those unstable molecules that form when the body uses oxygen, increases. Free radicals can cause eye damage similar to that resulting from exposure to radiation and can also contribute to such disorders as cataracts and macular degeneration.

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Eat plenty of:

• Carrots and sweet potatoes for betacarotene
• Citrus fruit and broccoli for vitamin C
• Salmon, sardines, herring and full cream dairy products for vitamin A
• Nuts and sweeds for vitamin E
• Seafood, meat, poultry and beans for zinc
• Leafy greens, peas, corn, capsicums for lutein and zeaxanthin

LIMIT:

• Saturated and trans fats