| Macular degeneration is a terrifying disease that is | | | | them in orange peppers, squash, kiwi fruit, red |
| the leading cause of blindness in people who are | | | | grapes, and also in pumpkins if you can believe it. |
| 40 years old or older though most people have | | | | Several of these foods also are known to have |
| never even heard about it. What happens is a tiny | | | | fairly strong cancer prevention properties as well |
| fuzzy dot begins to appear in the center of your | | | | making them twice as good for you when it |
| vision. That tiny dot begins to grow as time goes | | | | comes to disease prevention overall. I'm not |
| on getting larger and larger until the fuzzy dot | | | | saying that you have to eat all of these foods |
| covers your entire eye sight range and all you | | | | every day, but the more of them that you can |
| see is blurryness. I think now you realize why I | | | | incorporate into your daily diet the better off you |
| described it as a terrifying disease or condition! | | | | will be in the long run. |
| In this article today I would like to discuss several | | | | Adding these foods to your diet may help |
| things you can do to help protect yourself from | | | | prevent macular degeneration but really we |
| macular degeneration and how to prevent it from | | | | shouldn't just focus on one single illness and |
| beginning in the first place. While there are some | | | | instead should focus on eating a well rounded |
| treatments available once it has begun, they are | | | | nutritious diet which will help to prevent you from |
| generally very invasive and scary for most people | | | | getting a broad range of different diseases and |
| making prevention the far better alternative. | | | | health conditions. |
| Macular degeneration seems to manifest itself in | | | | Getting regular exercise can also be a very good |
| people whose diets are low in lutein and also | | | | way to lead a healthy lifestyle that will snowball |
| zeaxanthin. So the obvious thing is to increase | | | | and help you to prevent yourself from getting |
| the amount of foods that you eat that contain | | | | many different diseases and conditions. |
| these things. Luckily that's not all that hard to do. | | | | So there you have several simple foods you can |
| Those two things are what we refer to as | | | | eat that will help prevent macular degeneration |
| carotenoids. Sorry about the big weird words | | | | before it even gets started. Just because you are |
| but sometimes you just have to use them! | | | | over 40 years old does not mean you should lose |
| Foods that are rich in carotenoids include grits, | | | | your eyesight because it is one of the most |
| corn bread, eggs, orange juice, broccoli, and | | | | precious things we have. |
| spinach. Along with these foods you can also find | | | | |