Eye Health

Your eyes are marvelous organs. Knowing how to care for your eyes can help to prevent cartaracts, a clouding of the lens in your eyes that comes with aging. The best care you can give to your eyes is by helping your body to produce more of its master antioxidant Glutathione.

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As early as in our 30's, eyes and vision can begin to deteriorate. Ocular nutrition is one of the ways that eye health can be maintained and improved. By understanding which nutrition and eye health food choices to make, you can include more of these foods in daily meal planning.

Women, you are the ones who end up looking after your family health concerns. Do you know how to protect your own eye sight? There are many different conditions that will affect your vision, and, you need to become aware of them.

Do you eyes feel tired and sore by the end of the day? Modern life puts a lot of stress on our bodies and eyes are among the first things to suffer. But it doesn’t have to be this way

Do you eyes feel tired and sore by the end of the day? Modern life puts a lot of stress on our bodies and eyes are among the first things to suffer. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Learn simple things you can do for your eye health and your eyes will feel and look much better in only a few days.

Proper nutrition and a safe environment, prevents any eye health issues or problems. Cats need their eyes for everyday survival indoors and outdoors. Cat eye health can contribute to blindness and blurred vision in a cat if not properly cared for in the case of injury or disease.

Why is it that the population of the world still continues to have sight problems and why is vision loss on the increase? You'd think that the opposite would be true with the number of medical advances being made seemingly every day. Ironically, many researchers believe that about half of all blindness could be prevented! Eye health care, therefore, is obviously very important to everybody...

Science and natural medicine are meshing in how we can protect our eye health better and, actually, improve it. As someone who has very severe dry eyes (my eyes don't produce enough moisture to keep them lubricated which results in redness, feeling scratchy and so forth and severe enough that I have actually both upper tear ducts plugged so less moisture is drained from my eyes), I am happy to report that, for me, I've found that adding natural supplements to my diet have changed things significantly.

A woman from Puerto Rico recently asked me why her eye doctor administers drops to dilate her pupils during an examination. She mentioned that she found this to be very annoying because in Puerto Rico there is a lot of sun and, when she went outside after her appointment, the light made her eyes hurt.

PBA has dedicated April as Women's Eye Health and Safety month and encourages women to make their own health a priority. Many women may feel they need to put the health of their children and spouses in front of their own, but need to be reminded that they are just as important. Scheduling eye appointments for the entire family, including themselves, is one way to make sure women are getting the care they need.