How nutrition affects our vision: the main features are revealed

Eye health largely depends on a balanced diet: some foods can protect your eyesight and prevent various diseases.

Lack of vitamins and low intake of mineral salts over time can limit the functionality of the eyes or aggravate existing pathologies. To avoid this, you need to add green leafy vegetables, yellow and orange fruits, soybeans and their derivatives, eggs, fish, dried fruits, and chocolate to your diet.

OBOZREVATEL, together with blogunisalute.it, offers a closer look at what vitamins and minerals are contained in these products, as well as what diseases they can prevent.

As already mentioned, vitamins and minerals are very important nutrients for vision: proper intake of these elements actually helps fight degenerative diseases, chronic pathologies, and in some cases, even tumors. To be healthy, our eyes need:

• vitamins C, D, E;
• antioxidants, which slow down the oxidation of other substances present in the human body, thereby preventing cell aging;
• beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin – organic pigments belonging to the carotenoid family, which have excellent antioxidant properties;
• omega-3 – essential fatty acids;
• flavonoids – plant pigments;
• resveratrol – an aromatic compound;
• zinc – a mineral that is present in the body in small amounts, but must be included in the diet.

Moreover, thanks to a healthy and balanced diet, diseases such as:

• glaucoma;
• cataracts;
• lens opacity or retinal degeneration;
• stiffness and degeneration of the optic nerve;
• age-related macular degeneration;
• problems with twilight vision (night blindness);
• diabetic retinopathy;
• dry eyes;
• myopia.