4 New Year's Resolutions for Eye Health
1. Eat Right
Eating a sugary, fried and red meat diet isn't just bad for your heart and longevity. The same foods that trigger inflammatory mediators in the rest of your body adversely affect the delicate tissues of the eye, especially the macula which is responsible for detailed vision.
2. Shop Right
Stick to the perimeter of your grocery store as much as you can, avoiding the white pasta, white sugar, white rice, white grains, white breads, and white flour offerings in the middle. Those foods all have high glycemic indices, which means they cause a rapid rise in blood sugar levels.
3. See your Eye Doctor regularly
Even if you don't require eyeglasses, that has very little to do with your eye health. See your eye doctor at least once per year, more frequently if you have glaucoma, diabetes, macular degeneration or other conditions.
4. Focus on Your Eye Nutrition
Nowhere else in your body are the tissues as delicate and prone to permanent damage and loss of function as are the eyes. Give your eyes the support they deserve this year with quality eye nutritional supplements from Shop VisiVite - the choice of both doctors and patients. Shop VisiVite offers 3 different nutritional collections:
- Premium AREDS 2 - Nutritional support for people with macular degeneration
- Health Vision Collection - Ocular nutritional support for people of all ages
- Dry Eye Collection - Patented oral nutritional support for those with symptoms of dry eye.
Paul Krawitz, M.D.
Dr. Paul Krawitz is a board-certified ophthalmic surgeon and university clinical professor of ophthalmology. He serves as President and CEO of Shop VisiVite and is a physician partner at OCLI, a world-renowned ophthalmologic practice on Long Island, New York.
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