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Essential Nutrition for Eyes!

Posted on: 17/Sep/2014 12:09:43 PM

If you depend only on carrots for healthy eyes, it’s very old. In this modern world, to sustain the beautiful and glowing eyes, to avert serious eye illness and to put off using glasses at a later stage, the intake of wide variety of fruits and vegetables is very significant. Not only the orange is helpful, but also red, yellow and green colored vegetable and fruits shows remarkable benefits. Along with the vitamin A, to maintain our eyes healthy we need a wide range of nutrients.

Here are few substances that are essential for healthy eyes:  

Lutein & Zeaxanthin:  Many studies have revealed that both lutein and zeaxanthin belongs to the antioxidant carotenoids group, which was able to lessen the risk of chronic eye diseases, including cataracts and AMD. Categorically, both the lutein and zeaxanthin is highly popular as a nutritional penyehat eyes.

Sources:  Sources of lutein rope in peppers or yellow peppers, mango, spinach, broccoli, cabbage. Zeaxanthin can be acquired from orange bell peppers, broccoli, corn, lettuce, spinach, sour fruit, juice, and eggs.

Vitamin C: Vitamin C has the property to cut down the risk of cataracts and decelerate the headway of AMD and visual acuity loss.

Sources: Vitamin C is highly rich in guava, oranges, spinach, bananas, apples, tomatoes, papaya, pineapple, broccoli, strawberries, peppers, kiwi, and cantaloupe.

Vitamin E: In general all kind of vitamins are essential for eyes, but particularly vitamin E can safe guard the eye cells from all sorts of free radical injuries.

Sources: Sources of vitamin E include almonds, peanuts, sweet potatoes, spinach, mustard greens, papaya, asparagus, and peppers.

Essential Fatty Acids: Essential fatty acids helps keep up the nervous system, serving energy to the cells and improve the immune system. Omega-3 is vital for fine visual development and retinal operations.

Sources: Sources of omega-3 fish such as salmon, tuna, snapper, mackerel, bleary, sardines, oysters, soy, and tofu.

Zinc: Zinc mineral is otherwise termed as ‘helper molecules’. It plays a significant role in the transportation of vitamin A from the liver to the retina so as to secrete melanin, a defensive pigment in the eyes. Zinc is exceedingly condensed in the eye, especially in the retina, choroid, and the vascular tissue layer underneath the retina.

Sources: The source of zinc includes beef, lobster, shrimp, eggs, salmon, milk, yogurt, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, and oats.

Sulphur: Sulphur acts a support for the eye lens and helps in keeping the eye lens strong.

Sources:  The sources of sulphur include garlic and cabbage family vegetables.