Iimportant occular nutrition and vision information
July 2nd, 2005
Besides the nutrients and occular nutrition foods, the following nutrients are associated with vision and eye health.
· Alpha Lipoic Acid – ALA improves the performance of other antioxidants in the body
· L-Taurine – helps protect the eyes from UV light and helps strengthen the retinal cells
· Lycopene – a strong antioxidant found in tomatoes
· N-Acetyl Cysteine – helps protect the eyes from damage by UV light and strengthens the immune system
· Quercetin – a strong antioxidant that helps maintain lens transparency; exists in small amounts in red wine
· Vitamin C – helps the body resist damage by oxidation (damage from long-term exposure to oxygen and light)
· Zinc – helps support macula and retina health; levels of zinc and eye health are definitely related
How can you obtain these occular nutrition nutrients every day?
Great question! There’re several options:
1 – Try to include the occular nutrition foods in the daily meal planning. Consuming more whole foods and healing and eye health should be a goal of everyone. While using nutrition to improve eye health is a good idea, very large quantities of the eye-healthy foods are needed to provide meaningful nutrient levels.
2 – Take the various nutrients individually in supplement form. Not a very practical idea since this would cost in excess of $100 a month with lots of individual supplements to take each day, which is somewhat cumbersome.
3 – Take a vision and eye health specific nutritional supplement. There ARE ocular health vitamins and ocular health nonprescription supplements that help maintain or even improve eyesight. This can be a practical and cost-effective solution. One such vision health product is called Extension Vision.
4 – Take a daily multiple vitamin/mineral supplement that INCLUDES the vitamins for ocular health providing the eye-healthy nutrients in meaningful quantities. This option can be the BEST way, assuming one can locate such a product. Most daily supplements either do not include all of the eye-healthy nutrients, or the quantities are so low as to be of little benefit.
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