Open Your Eyes to Healthy Eating!!

By eating foods rich in six nutrients a person can help protect their sight, according to the American Optometric Association. Those nutrients include lutein and zeaxanthin (colorful fruits and vegetables such as broccoli, spinach, kale, corn, green beans, peas, oranges and tangerines), essential fatty acids (fatty fish, such as tuna, salmon, or herring, whole-grain foods, chicken, and eggs), vitamin C (fruits and vegetables such as oranges, grapefruit, strawberries, papaya, green peppers, and tomatoes), vitamin E (vegetable oils, such as safflower or corn oil, almonds, pecans, sweet potatoes and sunflower seeds) and zinc (extra-lean red meat, poultry, liver, shellfish, milk, baked beans and whole grains). Approximately 43 million Americans have macular degeneration or cataracts, the two leading causes of vision loss and blindness. Good nutrition has a very strong correlation with prevention of these age related diseases.