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5 Tips for Eye Health and Maintaining Good Eyesight

Good healthy eyesight is what we all need and want. It’s so important that you continue to have good eyesight because as you get older, you will still want to see wonderful new things.

Follow some of these tips to having healthier eyes.

1. The first tip is to make sure you get nutrients with the foods that you eat. Taking vitamins C and E and some nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, zinc or lutein can help you ward off cataracts as you get older. Try to eat greens, spinach, tuna, salmon, eggs and nuts, oranges and beans; these foods will help you to have good eye health. When you eat healthy you’ll also keep up a good weight, which will decrease your risk of diabetes. Diabetes can cause blindness if we don’t take proper care from the initial stages.

3 Ways to Reduce Your Chances of Experiencing Blurry Vision

Blurry vision is a nuisance, but can also seriously impair nearly every aspect of daily life — from causing headaches and eyestrain to making it difficult and dangerous to drive.  If you are experiencing unexplained blurry vision, first and foremost, visit your doctor.  Blurred vision can stem from numerous medical problems that should be diagnosed and treated before any home remedies are attempted.

Commonly, blurred vision is caused by refractive errors, conditions wherein the retina is prevented from receiving the appropriate amount of light in order to generate nerve impulses.  Conditions caused by refractive errors are myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism (blurriness at all distances), which can all be corrected with glasses, contact lenses or laser eye surgery.