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Imagine what your life would be like if youve lost your eyesight. It is quite likely that not only wont you be able to picture such a scenario, but you will become terrified with the sole thought of it. Surprisingly, many surveys found that the fear of blindness is the strongest of all health related fears a person might have. For instance, recent study illustrated that twice as many people are afraid of loosing their eyesight as are afraid of death or cardiovascular problems.* Although people are so fearful of loosing natures most precious gift vision, only some do something to protect, preserve or improve their eyesight. Moreover, the majority of the people with vision disorders settle with the thought that they have poor vision and there is nothing they can do to reverse that. Many factors contribute to such a passive behavior insufficient knowledge about vision, lack of understanding of the causes and risk factors of the most common eyesight disorders, underestimating the importance of certain lifestyle habits, including dietary habits and food preferences, misjudgment of the most popular vision facts and fiction, insufficient physical and eye exercising, these all influence eye health and visual acuity. Regardless of the precise reason why a person fails to take proper care of their eyes, the reality is that many vision problems are reversible and this is the exact reason why Ive decided to compile this guide. It will cover some of the most important topics about eye health and eyesight improvement. What you will find on the following pages: Improving Eyesight: Facts vs. Fiction How Eyes Work (c) Copyright 2011 http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/
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I trust the following advice will answer many of your questions, will increase your awareness about vision and will help you take better care of your eyes and improve your vision naturally! Kristy White Eyesight Boosting Diet Secrets Great Eye Exercises for Improving Vision The Importance of Nutrition and Exercise Together

Improving Eyesight: Facts vs. Fiction

While hereditary and environmental factors may lead to the deterioration of your eye's health and cause eyesight problems so do unhealthy habits, poor diet and lack of medical checkups. Clearly, a person cannot be aware of everything that is good (or bad) for their eyesight but knowing the main myths and facts about vision is imperative. Lets take a quick look at some of the most widespread vision facts and fiction. Fiction: Absolutely every eyesight disorder can be cured with eye exercises and relaxation. Fact: Eye exercises and eye relaxation are very important for general eye health. Some vision work-outs are aimed at preventing (or slowing down the progression) of some eyesight disorders, while others are specifically targeted at natural vision correction. Many eyesight disorders can be helped and even completely cured just by practicing eye exercises and relaxation; many people not only restore their 20/20 visual acuity but gain better vision than that.

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However, certain eye diseases cannot be influenced by eye exercises. Generally, these are eye diseases (glaucoma, age related macular degeneration, etc.) that involve permanent cell and tissue damage or cell and tissue death. Fiction: Crossing your eyes will make them stay that way. Fact: The myth that if you cross your eyes, they will remain crossed forever is probably devised by parents looking for a scary story that will make their kids forget about this habit. In fact, if you cross your eyes they will not stay that way. Moreover, some eye workouts and relaxation techniques actually ask people to cross their eyes in order to train their eye muscles and thus to improve vision naturally. However, if you notice that your kid is crossing their eyes often, you need to seek medical attention, as crossed-eyes are a sign of poor vision in children. Fiction: If your parents have poor vision, you will have poor vision too. Fact: Unfortunately, this is not really a myth but reality. All refractive errors (myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism) are hereditary. Some eye diseases that lead to severe vision impairment and blindness are also genetic glaucoma, macular degeneration, cataracts. The good news is that there are many things you can do to delay the onset and even to completely prevent some of the most common eyesight disorders. For example, nearsightedness is hereditary but scientists have found that some environmental and lifestyle factors are among the top risk factors of the condition and lead to its onset even in people without family history of myopia. I strongly recommend you to read the chapter Causes of Poor Vision: Facts and Fiction (p. 10) of my book Improve Your Vision Naturally (you can get it at http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/) where I give further details of the top risk factors and causes of poor eyesight and eye health problems. Additionally, you can self-test your vision with our useful tools, just check out the chapters dedicated to glaucoma and macular degeneration. (c) Copyright 2011 http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/
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Fiction: Wearing glasses will damage your vision further. Fact: The myth that wearing prescription eyeglasses is bad for your eyes, and especially detrimental if you are trying to improve your vision naturally, is totally wrong. Moreover, eyeglasses are not impeding natural eyesight improvement, but helping it. What is important is always to wear the correct eyeglasses prescription. If you are eager to learn why wearing glasses is important for your eye health and eyesight and how you can increase the benefits of wearing glasses, check out How to Increase the Benefits of Wearing Glasses in a Natural Way, a special chapter in my book (p. 16) Improve Your Vision Naturally. Fiction: Computer use is harmful for eye health and vision acuity. Fact: According to AAO, computer use cannot directly damage your eyes. But frequent and extended staring at a computer screen poses other threats for your eyes. For instance, long hours of close eye work are among the risk factors of nearsightedness. If your work involves long hours of computer use, I strongly recommend you to read my article How to Save Your Eyesight at the Computer (p. 140, Improve Your Vision Naturally). In the same chapter you will find more helpful tips on how to preserve your vision at the work place, including several beneficial eye exercises that prevent and relieve the symptoms of computer vision syndrome.

How Eyes Work?

Before we move on to concrete methods for natural eyesight correction, it is important that you understand how your eyes work. Do not worry you do not need to gain thorough knowledge about eye anatomy or eye physiology. What you need to do is to learn which the main structures of the eye are and how are they responsible for good vision.

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First, take a good look at the picture on the left. It represents a simplified schematic diagram of the structure of the human eye. The human eye consists of three basic layers: Cornea (the outermost transparent layer) and sclera (the white of the eye). Retina (the innermost layer). Choroids, ciliary body and iris (the middle layer). The crystalline lens and a clear fluid called vitreous humour are situated inside these layers. All of the above mentioned structures are involved in the actual process of seeing: the light enters the eye through the cornea, passes through the pupil and through the lens and focuses on the retina; from there it is sent, through the optic nerve, to the vision center of the brain. You can learn more about the structure of the eye and the way it functions from chapter "How Your Eyes Work?" (p. 14, Improve Your Vision Naturally). As you can see, the actual process of seeing involves nearly all eye structures and thus their integrity determines visual acuity. In other words, anatomical and/or physiological disorders even in just one eye structure may lead to poor vision. Refractive errors (nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism) may be caused by irregularities in one or more of the eye structures - irregularly shaped cornea (too steep or too flat), irregularly shaped crystalline lens of the eye, if the eye is too long or too short. Poor vision may be caused by physiological disorders affecting the crystalline lens of the eye or the retina. (c) Copyright 2011 http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/
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Although poor vision may be caused by anatomical disorders, a growing body of research suggests that some anatomical irregularities actually occur later in life and are caused by specific lifestyle habits. For example, some scientists believe that increased vision stress and close-up eye work may cause nearsightedness and/or astigmatism. Certain dietary and lifestyle habits also lead to eye health problems and disruption of normal eye function.

Eyesight Boosting Diet Secrets

Surely, you are aware that the food you eat can influence your eye health and may be directly responsible for the onset (or prevention) of many eyesight problems. Now, lets discuss the role of nutrition in specific eyesight problems how to prevent, preserve and improve eyesight naturally through a healthier diet. I will focus on nearsightedness, aging vision (presbyopia), cataracts and macular degeneration and how you can help these conditions through nutrition. Nearsightedness (myopia) Nearsightedness (myopia) is one of the most prevalent refractive errors. It may be caused by hereditary or acquired irregularities of some of the eye structures. Clearly, eye anatomy cannot be changed with diet alone; however a healthy vision diet can slow down further pathological changes of the eye and thus slow down the progression of myopia. Scientists believe that certain vitamin and mineral deficiencies increase the susceptibility of the eye to changes caused by prolonged close eye work. Myopic people need to have a diet particularly rich in foods

Natural Dietary Sources and Daily Value (%) Zinc, Selenium, Chromium Zinc
Calfs liver Beef Lamb

Serving DV
4 oz 4 oz 4 oz 72,0 42,2 30,7

Selenium
Calf liver Tuna, Cod Shrimp

Serving 4 oz 4 oz 4 oz
1 cup 2 cups 1 cup

DV 82,6 75,8 64,2

20,7 13,1 7,5

Chromium
Onions Lettuce Tomato

Serving DV

that are good dietary sources of selenium, chromium and zinc. Of course, all other vision macro- and micro-nutrients (Vitamin A, C, D and E, omega-3 fatty acids) must also present in adequate quantities in their nutrition plan. Aging Vision (Presbyopia) (c) Copyright 2011 http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/
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Presbyopia, commonly called aging vision, is an age-related eyesight disorder. Unlike other refractive errors and eye diseases, it is caused by the natural aging processes taking place in the eye cells and tissues. Obviously, there is nothing you can do to completely forestall aging. But you can significantly slow it down and thus postpone vision loss due to presbyopia. A study reported that increasing the amount of lutein in the diet resulted in an improvement in visual acuity (Olmedilla et al. 2003), while another study suggested that lutein supplementation might slow aging of the lens (Berendschot et al. 2002). Another study suggested that Vitamin E, which has very beneficial effect in people with cataracts, helped those with presbyopia improve their near vision. Natural Dietary Sources and Daily Value (DV%) Vitamin E, Lutein & Zeaxanthin Vitamin E
Sunflower seeds (raw) Almonds, roasted Olives

Serving DV
cup cup 1 cup 90,5 44,9 20,1

Lutein & Zeaxanthin

Kale Spinach Collards

Serving mg
1 cup 1 cup 1 cup 23,8 20,4 14,6

So, a good presbyopia diet should include foods rich in vitamin E and lutein (an essential nutrient primarily found in leafy green vegetables). You should include foods rich in vitamin C and vitamin A to your diet too because these vitamins are antioxidants. Cataract & Macular Degeneration Both cataract and macular degeneration are age- related eye diseases. Cataract affects the crystalline lens of the eye and macular degeneration the retina of the eye. Cataract can be treated with eye surgery but little can be done for those with macular degeneration. Fortunately, a proper diet and some healthy habits can greatly delay the onset of cataract and macular degeneration and may significantly slow down their progression. Studies reported that higher dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin and vitamin E can significantly decrease the risk of cataract formation. The Age-Related Eye Disease Study (c) Copyright 2011 http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/
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Natural Dietary Sources and Daily Value (%) Zinc, Selenium, Chromium Vitamin C
Bell peppers Broccoli Strawberries

Serving DV
1 cup 1 cup 1 cup 291,3 205,7 136,1

Vitamin A
Carrots Calfs liver Spinach

Serving 1 cup 4 oz 1 cup

DV 686,3 609,7 377,3

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(AREDS) determined that taking high levels of antioxidants and zinc can reduce the risk of developing advanced age-related macular degeneration by 25%. The essential nutrients used in the study are vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A and zinc. To find more nutritional answers to the most common eyesight disorders, take a look at the chapter Common Eyesight Disorders (p. 155, Improve Your Vision Naturally)

Great Eye Exercise for Improving Vision

Eye exercises and vision relaxation are of utmost importance for preserving, protecting and improving eyesight naturally. Generally, eye exercises are aimed at improving eye muscle strength and flexibility and thus enhancing the focusing abilities of the eyes. Depending on the eye muscles that are exercised and the way they are exercised, an eye work-out may be suitable for helping different eyesight problems. There are also eye exercises and relaxation techniques beneficial for general eye health and prevention. The following eye exercise, Figure Eights is one such exercise. It is great for building eye muscle strength and flexibility. Here is how to perform it: 1. Sit on a char three steps (10 feet) from a wall. 2. Picture a big figure eight, flipped horizontally on the wall. 3. Start tracing the outlines of the figure with your eyes. You can start from the middle and go left to right or vice versa. Do to it slowly and do not move your head, just your eyes. 4. Once you trace the figure in one direction, relax your eyes for a minute and trace it in the opposite direction. 5. Do the exercise 4 times. If you feel tired of the full number of repetitions initially, do not push yourself. Start with one repetition and gradually increase their number until you feel comfortable doing all four repetitions.

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If you suffer from nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism you can improve vision naturally by doing specific routines of vision exercises and eye relaxation.

The Importance of Nutrition and Exercise Together

So far weve been discussing how nutrition can influence your eye health and that visual acuity can be improves with some special eye exercises and relaxation. Now, I would like to turn your attention to the role nutrition and exercises have together. As anything else, your eyes are connected and even reliable on all other body systems. Thus, any process taking place in the body may affect eye health and eyesight. Moreover, your visual system is one of the most demanding systems. It needs nearly a quarter of all nutrients your body absorbs and 1/3 of all oxygen. Due to the high requirements and sensitivity of the vision system even slight disturbances in nutrition may cause serious eyesight problems. For instance, if you decrease your consumption of foods rich in Vitamin C, your body will take the vitamin amounts it needs from the eyes and thus will put eye health in danger. The biggest problem is that, in many cases, a person cannot notice any symptoms until significant vision damage occurs. Eye exercising is vital for eye health for the same reasons physical activity is vital for general health and wellbeing it keeps the eyes young, in shape and releases vision stress. We can easily conclude that proper nutrition and exercises are the two main components of any natural vision correction program a healthy vision diet provides the eyes with all the nutrients they need to regenerate and function correctly and eye exercises improve the blood supply to the eyes and keep them fit. Only by combining a healthy vision diet with adequate vision exercise and relaxation routines (you can choose one of our detailed step-by-step vision exercise routines for nearsightedness, farsightedness, aging vision and computer vision syndrome in Vision Exercise and Relaxation Routines chapter, p. 74, Improve Your Vision Naturally) you will be able to prevent, protect and improve eyesight naturally. (c) Copyright 2011 http://naturallyimproveeyesight.com/main/
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Why you should read Improve Your Vision Naturally?
Improve Your Vision Naturally is my new step by step guide dedicated to raising awareness about eye health and vision and helping people to preserve, protect and improve their eyesight naturally. What you will find in the book: How your eyes work. Risk factors and causes of the most common eyesight disorders. Numerous vision exercises, eye relaxation and massage techniques. Detailed nutrition information. Helpful tips on how to save your eyesight in front of a computer screen. Anyone suffering from an eyesight disorder will find practical information and detailed step- by-step vision exercise routines that will help them relieve the symptoms and even completely cure their problem; those who still enjoy perfect natural vision will learn how to slow down or even completely prevent the onset of many serious eye diseases. The book is also a comprehensive guide to the most widespread eye problems and helpful natural remedies for each one. Improve Your Vision Naturally will also help you to: Learn how hereditary, environmental and lifestyle factors may harm your eyesight. Create a healthy vision diet that will help your eyesight PLUS your general health. Evaluate your work place and rearrange it in a vision-friendly one. And much more

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* The research was sponsored by Pfizer and supported by the World Glaucoma Association and the World Glaucoma Patients Association. Pfizer commissioned a multi-country survey of individuals aged 40 and above and this was conducted by the GfK Group. The survey included 4,352 people (2,020 males and 2,332 females) in seven countries including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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