Start the New Year by Eating for your Eyes

 

For generations, children are told to eat their carrots to see better. Don’t stop eating carrots but grab some leafy green vegetables as well. Spinach is actually the best food to improve eye health because it is packed with lutein and zeaxanthin. Diets rich in these two types of carotenoids can help block the amount of blue light from reaching the underlying structures in the retina, which reduces the risk or slows the progression of macular degeneration.

For more comprehensive information check out EYEFOODS an easy to read book about all foods that can benefit our eye health.

Karen Griffith

Dr. Griffith is the owner and operator of Westside Optometry since 1989.