Tips on Nutrition for your Eyes
ByWe take our eyes for granted. They are there and always do their job. What you may not realize is that your diet can make your eyes better or worse. Here are a few tips.
If you are over weight you have twice the risk of dry macular degeneration than if you are not. A good reason to try to get to a more normal weight. 
High doses of 3 B Vitamins every day for 7 years – Folic acid at 25oo mcg., Vitamin B6 1000 mcg., Vitamin B12 1000 mcg. protected some women from macular degeneration. All the participants in the study were women and had cardiovascular disease. Those that took the vitamins were 1/3 less likely to be diagnosed with macular degeneration.
Eating large amounts of meat in 10 or more meals per week seemed to be associated with a significant increase in risk of macular degeneration.
Keep your blood’s Vitamin D3 levels high. I have written about some reasons why you should before on this blog but here is another one. You lower your risk of macular degeneration by up to 40%.
Eat low carbohydrate foods. Those who ate foods low on the glycemic index (a measure of how easily the food becomes glucose in your blood, lower index score = less easy to enter the blood as glucose) have less risk of macular degeneration.
Take that vitamin D3 ( with no vitamin A) and eat low glycemic foods and foods that contains lots of vitamins and minerals. This type of diet is good for your brain, heart and your eyes.
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This is good information, Bruce. I can’t imagine not having my eyesight. I also suspect a mineral deficiency is responsible for some eye disorders.
Several years ago, I knew a man who had started taking a liquid mineral supplement. It had about 70 or 80 different major & trace minerals. About 6 months later, his 3 doctors were amazed. His wet macular degeneration had stopped “leaking.” The doctors couldn’t figure out why, but the man knew why. He & his wife both had other health benefits, too.
Bruce, would you please tell us exactly what you mean when you say “low glycemic foods?” Thank you!
(This type of supplement is available in health food stores.)
There are two terms to understand Glycemic Index is a stardard indicating how fast a food turns into glucose in your blood. A glycemic index of 55 or below is considered low, 56-69 is medium an above 70 is high. A food can have a high glycemic index but have a low glycemic load. Watermelon has a high GI index but there is so little in it that its load is very low. a good place to read about this is http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm
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