{"id":40036,"date":"2018-01-11T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/?p=40036"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:24:04","slug":"january-health-kick-diet-fitness-tips-for-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/january-health-kick-diet-fitness-tips-for-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"January Health Kick: Diet & Fitness Tips for Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A healthy diet and regular exercise have been proven to help with eye health. So make sure you remember to\u00a0think about your vision with this year’s January regime. Give yourself a beginning-of-the-year kickstart, but remember to keep it up throughout the seasons to ensure long-term vision care.<\/p>\n

Here are some workout and dieting tips to assist you:<\/p>\n

1. Go Walking Regularly<\/h2>\n

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Studies have shown that physical activity can help to prevent a number of eye diseases, including glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration. With glaucoma particularly (which can be caused by damage to the optic nerve), walking is essential. Just simply walking two or three times a week can help to minimise the risk of glaucoma. Lowering your blood pressure through exercise can also help to prevent diseases and\u00a0hypertension.<\/p>\n

2. Get a Fitness Tracker<\/h2>\n
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A post shared by fitbit (@fitbit)<\/a> on Dec 27, 2017 at 5:18pm PST<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The NHS recommends that we walk\u00a010,000 steps every day. The average person in the UK actually only achieves between\u00a03,000 and 4,000 steps a day (this is particularly problematic for people with\u00a0sedentary jobs). In order to ensure the best eye health, it’s important to stay active. A fitness tracker can help to encourage more physical activity throughout the day, and works well by giving you a target to strive for.<\/p>\n

3. Include\u00a0Moderate Intensity Activities<\/h2>\n

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Moderate intensity workouts significantly reduce eye pressure and will help to burn calories and fat, lowering your BMI. Moderate activities can include a range of exercises or everyday tasks. Such as walking briskly, tennis or badminton, swimming, gentle cycling, light jogging and water aerobics. Or even things like mowing the lawn, vacuuming the house and heavy cleaning. So you don’t even have to join a gym to do some of these things!<\/p>\n

4. Reduce Your Sugar Intake<\/h2>\n

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It’s well known that diabetes is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in adults.\u00a0Diabetic retinopathy affects blood vessels in the retina, so avoiding this at all costs should be a priority for everyone at any age. This means cutting out refined sugars and saturated fats and eating a healthy, balanced diet. In simple terms, high-calorie diets and gaining weight\u00a0aligns your fate for type 2 diabetes, so it’s a good idea to keep an eye on your body mass.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Add Lutein to Your Diet<\/h2>\n

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Lutein has been labelled as the “super vitamin for eyes”. Studies show that this\u00a0carotenoid vitamin is powerful enough to dramatically reduce the risk of a number of eye problems, including\u00a0macular degeneration, cataracts and retinitis pigmentosa. Lutein-rich foods include kale, spinach, mustard greens, turnip greens, cress, green peas, brussels sprouts, sweetcorn and broccoli.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Take Eye Supplements<\/h2>\n

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If you are a picky eater and worry about the nutrient intake from your diet, eye supplements could be a great alternative. There are a number of eye supplements on the market today, many of which have Lutein. One particular formula that we recommend looking into is the\u00a0AREDS formulation, trialled by the NEI (National Eye Institute).<\/p>\n

For more eye health advice, check out our recent post titled\u00a0\u2018Top 10 Tips to Preserve Your Eye Health into Old Age<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n

Tag #SelectSpecsSelfie for a chance to be featured on
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A healthy diet and regular exercise have been proven to help with eye health. So make sure you remember to\u00a0think about your vision with this year’s January regime. Give yourself a beginning-of-the-year kickstart, but remember to keep it up throughout the seasons to ensure long-term vision care. Here are some workout and dieting tips to assist you: 1. Go Walking Regularly Studies have shown that physical activity can help to prevent a number of eye diseases, including glaucoma, cataracts and macular degeneration. With glaucoma particularly (which can be caused by damage to the optic nerve), walking is essential. Just simply walking two or three times a week can help to minimise the risk of glaucoma. Lowering your blood pressure through exercise can also help to prevent diseases and\u00a0hypertension. 2. Get a Fitness Tracker A post shared by fitbit (@fitbit) on Dec 27, 2017 at 5:18pm PST The NHS recommends that we walk\u00a010,000 steps every day. The average person in the UK actually only achieves between\u00a03,000 and 4,000 steps a day (this is particularly problematic for people with\u00a0sedentary jobs). In order to ensure the best eye health, it’s important to stay active. A fitness tracker can help to encourage more physical activity throughout the day, and works well by giving you a target to strive for. 3. Include\u00a0Moderate Intensity Activities Moderate intensity workouts significantly reduce eye pressure and will help to burn calories and fat, lowering your BMI. Moderate activities can include a range of exercises or everyday tasks. Such as walking briskly, tennis or badminton, swimming, gentle cycling, light jogging and water aerobics. Or even things like mowing the lawn, vacuuming the house and heavy cleaning. So you don’t even have to join a gym to do some of these things! 4. Reduce Your Sugar Intake It’s well known that diabetes is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in adults.\u00a0Diabetic retinopathy affects blood vessels in the retina, so avoiding this at all costs should be a priority for everyone at any age. This means cutting out refined sugars and saturated fats and eating a healthy, balanced diet. In simple terms, high-calorie diets and gaining weight\u00a0aligns your fate for type 2 diabetes, so it’s a good idea to keep an eye on your body mass. 5.\u00a0Add Lutein to Your Diet Lutein has been labelled as the “super vitamin for eyes”. Studies show that this\u00a0carotenoid vitamin is powerful enough to dramatically reduce the risk of a number of eye problems, including\u00a0macular degeneration, cataracts and retinitis pigmentosa. Lutein-rich foods include kale, spinach, mustard greens, turnip greens, cress, green peas, brussels sprouts, sweetcorn and broccoli. 6.\u00a0Take Eye Supplements If you are a picky eater and worry about the nutrient intake from your diet, eye supplements could be a great alternative. There are a number of eye supplements on the market today, many of which have Lutein. One particular formula that we recommend looking into is the\u00a0AREDS formulation, trialled by the NEI (National Eye Institute). For more eye health advice, check out our recent post titled\u00a0\u2018Top 10 Tips to Preserve Your Eye Health into Old Age\u2018. Tag #SelectSpecsSelfie for a chance to be featured on our page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":40041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2357,2596,3170,3172],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}