Look at Vitamin a
Written by Dominic Bowen Saturday, 07 May 2011 03:12
HEALTHY eyes depend on a wide range of food and minerals. Here are the vitamins you want to maintain a good vision
Vitamin A. It may protect membranes in the eye against oxidative damage and is thought to have a role in the fixing of cells that've been injured. Foods with Vitamin An are liver, dairy foods and eggs.
Vitamin C. It is in high concentrations in the tissues of the eye. Inadequacies could lead to numerous eye issues.
Foods high in Vitamin C are kalamansi, blackcurrants, strawberries and citrus fruits.
*Zinc. It is in a number of tissues within the eye, where it is assumed to play a protecting role against age related wear and tear.
Eggs, seafood, meats, nuts and legumes all are high in zinc. Potatoes in Britain, everyone eats 207lb of this flexible vegetable every year and surveys suggest two thirds of us believe - in the case of the jacket spud at least - that it qualifies as one of our endorsed 'five portions of fruit and vegetables a day '. But , shockingly, it doesn't, according to the govt at least.
Vitamin a Regardless of the indisputable fact that the potato is one hundred percent natural, fat and cholesterol-free and packed full of vitamins and minerals, the Dept of Health ( DoH ) has never included it in the 'five a day ' standards since it launched its healthy-eating campaign in March 2003. In reality it does not even class the potato as a plant at all .
'Potatoes are botanically classified as a vegetable, but they are classified nutritionally as a starchy food, ' claims a DoH spokesman. 'This is really because when eaten as an element of a meal, they're generally used in the place of other starchy carbs, for example bread, pasta or rice.