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Foods to see everything clearer

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

healthy eyeA balanced diet, consuming as much fresh vegetables fruits, eggs, meat and fish, because this way you can get the necessary amounts of all vitamins, and improve eye health. Meet the most important vitamins for maintaining good eye health.

1. Vitamin A – Retinol and beta-carotene
Tomato. It is a food especially rich in vitamin A. Vitamin A has two natural sources: the retinol from the animal kingdom, and beta-carotene from the vegetable kingdom.

They succeed those who say that carrots are good for the eyes, contains beta-carotene, a substance that our body can convert into vitamin A, crucial in the process of vision and represents a great help in keeping daylight vision and night. Vitamin A is essential in the regeneration of rhodopsin, whose decomposition by the light allows the process of vision.

The lack of this vitamin can lead to blindness or decreased Twilight visual acuity after dark. And also other problems such as dry eye conjunctiva and corneal ulceration.

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