Australian scientists have found foods that enhance the eyes and help prevent eye diseases that lead to blindness.
According to experts, the diet you need to add fish, nuts and olive oil.
Researchers from the Australian Centre for the study eyes found that a fairly high level of fatty acid omega-3 in the body can be most likely to avoid eye diseases, including macular degeneration – the most common cause of blindness in the elderly in developed countries. In addition to age the disease can cause Smoking and various genetic factors.
As it turned out, the degeneration of the macula is also affected and food. Ophthalmologists at the University of Sydney has examined almost two and a half thousand people, while studying their dietary preferences. As a result, scientists have concluded that eating fish at least once a week reduces the risk of blindness by 31%. A little more salubrious effect has a weekly handful of nuts. A use for seven days, 100 milliliters of olive oil significantly reduces the effect of eye diseases.
At the same time, the elderly, heavily consuming baked goods and TRANS fats, often developed macular degeneration. According to the hypothesis of experts, TRANS-unsaturated fatty acids also induce inflammatory processes that contribute to age-damage to the retina. And omega-3 has protective properties to view due to the strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory elements.
Ophthalmologists believe that the fatty acids contained in fish, nuts and olive oil provide serious assistance to the eyes, preventing the accumulation of plaques in the blood vessels and the formation of oxygen in the arteries, removing inflammation and normalizing the functioning of cells in the retina
