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Six Nutrients For Healthy Eyes

Written By TT on Friday, December 3, 2010 | 7:13 AM

Nutrients For Healthy Eyes
Six Nutrients For Healthy Eyes - Nutrition and antioxidants play an important role in maintaining eye health. The studies found that 6 of nutrients, including antioxidants lutein, zeaxanthin, beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, and zinc, is essential in maintaining eye health.

What food is rich in essential nutrients? You can get these vitamins from a variety of vegetables and fruits such as oranges, kiwi, grapefruit (grapefruit is acidic), dried apricots, tomatoes, peppers, raw carrots, green leafy vegetables including kale and spinach, green peas (beans/string beans .) In addition, this vitamin can also be found in nuts, grains, dairy products and eggs.

While lutein and zeaxanthin are also found in vegetables and fruit. Lutein can be found in yellow peppers, mango, and green vegetables such as cabbage, spinach and broccoli. Zeaxanthin found in orange peppers, broccoli, corn, lettuce, spinach, oranges, and eggs. Most of these foods also contain vitamins A, E and C.

Destroyer eye

Nutrition and antioxidants protect the eyes from the role of damage caused by the wave of red, blue, green, yellow and ultraviolet (UV). UV light, in particular, is very damaging lens of the eye, while blue light damage to the retina (a sensory membrane that lines the eye and serves to receive the image formed by the lens of the eye). In addition, free radicals (the rest of metabolism) also contributed to the damage. If not neutralized by antioxidants, then this process over time will damage lipids, proteins and other components of the lens. This will obscure the view, known as cataracts.
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