Nuts About Your Eyes
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.
More Sight Savers
Not so nuts about nuts? Here are some other ways to keep your eyes sharp.
- Go fish! Turns out eating fish, like eating nuts, may have a protective effect against AMD progression. It's also good for warding off this eye syndrome.
- Be cool. Wear your shades.
- Hit the road. Simple exercises like walking may be good for your eyes. Here's why.
- Bulk up. Your diet, that is -- with these four other friends of eye health.
How's your vision? Take the Amsler Eye Test in 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.
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.
