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Foods & Supplements Vital to Vision
Linking diet to the health of eyesight is not a new phenomenon. How often did your mother link the importance of eating carrots to seeing better? By the way…she was right. The body converts beta carotene in carrots to vitamin A, which aids vision – especially night vision. In the years following your mother’s advice, the scientific community has produced a slew of evidence linking select dietary ingredients to saving healthy eyesight.
Considering the two leading causes of blindness and vision loss are cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (affecting more than 22 million Americans), learning how diet can play a role in protecting eye health is an important lesson. The following are the key components that have been identified as important for protecting vision. We’ve highlighted food sources as well as the OneLife products that contain each ingredient.

In addition to this key list, proanthocyanidins have recently received attention regarding protecting healthy vision. Most noted for their support of heart health because of their ability to help maintain the normal formation of connective tissue, strengthen capillaries in the body, and improve capillary venous blood flow; these same properties make them beneficial to healthy vision. Additionally, proanthocyanidins contain flavonoids – compounds that support and maintain the natural regeneration of rhodopsin, the purple pigment used by the rods in the eye for night vision. Studies have shown that proanthocyanidins may be especially useful in protecting eye health as the body ages.
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