Feeding Your Eyes Will Help Protect Your Eyesight
Feeding your eyes is the most important thing you can do to ensure good vision.

The foods you eat contribute directly and indirectly to your continuing eye health, or they can contribute to declining vision, eye disease, perhaps even blindness.

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables, herbs, spices and fish contributes directly by supplying certain vitamins, carotenoids, minerals and essential fatty acids to your eyes.

A diet loaded with saturated fats and sugar lacks many of the antioxidants necessary for eye health, which will lead to a buildup of free radicals.

It also offers or creates substances that put your eyes at risk, such as arterial plaque, which leads to restricted blood flow through the blood vessels of the eyes.

Foods also contribute indirectly to eye health by doing such things as supplying substances that regulate your blood sugar, high levels of which are directly implicated in diabetes-related eye diseases and can increase your risk of developing glaucoma.

By feeding your eyes the following foods, you'll be providing good to excellent antioxidant support for your eyes.

Check below to learn how these vegetables, fruits, herbs, and fish contribute to your eye health.

Vegetables for Eye Health

Green beans
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Carrots
Celery
Chili peppers
Collards
Corn
Dandelion leaves
Kale
Leeks
Leaf lettuce
Mustard greens
Peas
Spinach
Squash
Sweet peppers
Sweet potatoes and yams
Tomatoes
Turnip greens


Fruits for Eye Health

Acerolas
Apricots (dried)
Blueberries and Bilberries
Cantaloupe
Guavas
Kiwis
Lemons
Persimmons

Herbs and Spices for Eye Health


Dill
Oregano
Parsley
Turmeric

Fish for Eye Health

Salmon
Albacore Tuna
Mackerel
Sardines

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