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Healthy Life, Healthy Eyes
Living an overall healthy life is good for your eyes. Healthy vision starts with healthy eating and exercise habits.
There's more to complete eye health than just carrots. Are you eating food that promotes the best vision possible? Learn what foods boost your eye well-being and help protect against diseases. Here are important nutrients to look for when selecting your foods.
- Beta carotene or Vitamin A (helps the retina function smoothly): carrots and apricots
- Vitamin C (reduce risk of macular degeneration and cataracts): citrus and blueberries
- Vitamin E (hinders progression of cataracts and AMD): almonds and sunflower seeds
- Riboflavin (helps your eyes adapt in […]
Ummm…Why are you wearing those?
What’s up with people wearing those big sunglasses after cataract surgery?
The main reason is for protection – physical protection to assure nothing hits the eye immediately after surgery, and protection from sunlight and other bright lights.
We want to protect the eye from getting hit physically because there is a small incision in the eyeball through which the surgeon has removed the cataract and inserted a new clear lens. In most modern cataract surgeries that incision is very small – about one-tenth of an inch in most cases. The vast majority of surgeons do not stitch the incision closed […]
