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Nuts About Your Eyes

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Regardless of their shape, size, or type, fatty foods may be bad for your eyes. With this exception: nuts!
Yep, eating nuts at least once a week may help protect your peepers from vision-stealing conditions like macular degeneration.

Feed Your Vision
Scientists discovered that people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) could slow down the disease by eating one or more servings of nuts a week. Makes sense. The supernutrients in nuts -- vitamin E, copper, magnesium, fiber, and resveratrol -- all help protect against blood vessel problems that might contribute to AMD. (Use RealAge Smart Search to learn more about the condition.)

More Sight Savers
Not so nuts about nuts? Here are some other ways to keep your eyes sharp. How's your vision? Take the Amsler Eye Test at the end of this eye-health article.
RealAge Benefit: Eating a diet low in saturated and trans fats can make your RealAge as much as 6 years younger.

References Published on 04/23/2008.
Progression of age-related macular degeneration: association with dietary fat, transunsaturated fat, nuts, and fish intake. Seddon, J. M., Cote, J., Rosner, B., Archives of Ophthalmology 2003 Dec;121(12):1728-1737.

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How do you use nuts to add texture and flavor to your favorite foods?
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Ladybugger
60 of 62 people found this helpful.
4/26/2008 4:42:08 PM

When those low blood sugar blues hit, usually midafternoon, I take a few nuts to give me a protein boost and stave off hunger until dinner. ... [Show More]
Robynar
45 of 50 people found this helpful.
4/26/2008 4:11:25 AM

Since cooked oils are questionable, changing into potentially dangerous transfats, it applies also to the oils in nuts. On an irregular basi... [Show More]
[Edited by Robynar on 4/26/2008 4:17:53 AM]
evelynn
50 of 59 people found this helpful.
4/25/2008 9:20:05 PM

I have baked almonds with a wee bit of olive oil , a dash of sea salt , onion powder and some paprika ...Let cool ... Will keep in a sealed ... [Show More]
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