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Foods To Eat For Healthy Eyes by 247naijamedia: 11:19am On Oct 24, 2015
Carrots
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Carrots are among the best foods to eat every day for eyes healthy. Carrots contain source of vitamin A and beta-carotene that help the eye health. Vitamin A is good for eye and beta-carotene powerful antioxidant and
also helps the eye from damage like Black Eye, Cataracts, Color Blindness, Cornea Transplant and Eye and Vision News. Carrots didn’t contain night vision but the beta-carotene will help you to reduce the cataracts and macular degeneration. It also rich and contain in fiber and potassium, and good and great for health. Potassium helps and maintains the body fluid to balance while fiber helps the body as aid of digestive of the system functioning well or act well. It also rich in falcarinol that reduce the cell cancer of the body. If you want to reduce weight, start eating carrots and excerise because it also contains calories. Or by add carrots to food like salads, soup and stir fry .

Nuts
Nuts can be found in anywhere or area. They contain Vitamin E and Omega-3 (fatty acids) that prevent eye and brain health. Nuts also provide real energy for the body. There are different types of fruit and food to boost your eye and brain health. It is your choice to choose any one out of them.

Corn
Corn is the one of the delicious and versatile vegetable. Yellow corn contains zeaxanthin and lutein that are powerful antioxidant and prevent the eye, by cooking half cup of corn once in a week will provide you 1.8 grams of these pigments. Eating or consuming corn once in a week will reduce the risk of cataracts and prevent the eye from losing of yellow pigments. Corn also contains Vitamin (C, B5, B1 and Folate) and also source of magnesium, phosphorus, copper, zinc and the antioxidants also help the body to reduce cancer. Corn also helps to protect you from hemorrhoids and colon cancer, heart attack, reduce and weight diabetes. You can also add it to food like salads and also soup either grill or boil, because it is healthy for the body.

Ostrich
Eating of Ostrich meat is good for the healthy eye. It also rich in zinc that helps the eye healthy and reduces the risk of macular degeneration. Ostrich is a good meat. It also contains less amount of fat and lower cholesterol than chicken and any other meat. Ostrich meat also rich in zinc that is important for the maintenance of the eye and is also good for enzyme and proper function of digestion of the body, it helps to reduce stress, fight of acne and boost your metabolism. If you are suffering from macular degeneration, try to add ostrich meat to your diet. Eating of ostrich will improve your eye health, maintain and build muscle. It is also source of potassium, protein, iron and phosphorus. Ostrich meat doesn’t contain some harmful bacteria e.g. salmonella or unlike chicken.

Fish
Eating of fish is good for the health such as sardines, mackerel, and halibut and salmon. Salmon is among the best fish to be eating daily, because is source of omega-3 (fatty acid) which is good for the eye. Eating salmon will reduce the risk of macular degeneration in the eye and prevent you from eye disease such as Black Eye, Cataracts, Color Blindness, Cornea Transplant and Eye and Vision News so on, it also rich in Vitamin D that improves eye health. Vitamin D deficiency can lead to risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and arthritis, but eating of salmon daily will help you to improve your eye vision and prevent you from vitamin D deficient. Omega-3 also helps to reduce inflammation, lower cholesterol and also prevent you from Alzheimer’s disease.

Vegetables
Eating of fresh vegetable such as Kale, spinach, chard, collards, and other are good for body to function well or act well. Most of these leaf contains antioxidants, zeaxanthin and lutein, that are stored in the macula. This macula is a small part of retina that prevents you from harmful light e.g car light or touch light. Scientist has found that lutein and zeaxanthin can reduce the risk of chromic eye disease such as macular degeneration and cataract in the eye. Spinach is rich in postassium, folate, Vitamins (K and E) antioxidants that prevent your brain cells. Kale is also source of vitamins (A, C and K) and calcium. Eating of kale daily will promote good healthy to eyes and skin, reduce cholesterol level and improve liver and kidney functions well.

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Re: Foods To Eat For Healthy Eyes by MoonChildng: 11:27am On Oct 24, 2015
Ostrich meat i am yet to come across it .Nice post

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