Naturally Improve Your Eyesight - Simple Steps to Naturally Better Vision

Simple Steps to Naturally Better Vision!
Imagine what your life would be
like if you've lost your eyesight. It is
quite likely that not only won't you
be able to picture such a scenario,
but you wil 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
il ustrated 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 nature's 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 I've
decided to compile this guide. It wil cover some of the most important topics about eye
health and eyesight improvement.

What you wil find on the fol owing pages:
* Improving Eyesight: Facts vs. Fiction
* How Eyes Work
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* Eyesight Boosting Diet Secrets
* Great Eye Exercises for Improving Vision
* The Importance of Nutrition and Exercise Together

I trust the fol owing advice wil answer many of your questions, wil increase your awareness
about vision and wil help you take better care of your eyes and improve your vision
naturally!

Kristy White

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.

Let's 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
workouts 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 cel
and tissue damage or cel and tissue death.

Fiction: Crossing your eyes wil make them stay that way.

Fact: The myth that if you cross your eyes, they wil remain crossed forever is probably
devised by parents looking for a scary story that wil make their kids forget about this habit.

In fact, if you cross your eyes they wil 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 crossedeyes are a sign of poor
vision in children.

Fiction: If your parents have poor vision, you wil have poor vision too.

Fact: Unfortunately, this is not really a myth but reality. Al 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 Natural y
(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 selftest your vision with our useful tools, just check out the chapters dedicated to
glaucoma and macular degeneration.

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Fiction: Wearing glasses wil 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 Natural y.

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 Natural y).
In the same chapter you wil 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).
* Choroids, ciliary body and iris
(the middle layer).
* Retina (the innermost layer).

The crystalline lens and a clear fluid called vitreous humour are situated inside these layers.

Al 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 Natural y).

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.
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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
closeup 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, let's
discuss the role of nutrition in specific eyesight problems - how to prevent, preserve and
improve eyesight naturally through a healthier diet. I wil 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
Natural Dietary Sources and
refractive errors. It may be caused by hereditary or
Daily Value (%)
acquired irregularities of some of the eye structures.
Zinc, Selenium, Chromium

Clearly, eye anatomy cannot be changed with diet
Zinc
Serving DV
Calf's liver
4 oz
72,0
alone; however a healthy vision diet can slow down
Beef
4 oz
42,2
Lamb
4 oz
30,7
further pathological changes of the eye and thus slow



down the progression of myopia.
Selenium
Serving DV
Calf liver
4 oz
82,6
Tuna, Cod
4 oz
75,8
Scientists believe that certain vitamin and mineral
Shrimp
4 oz
64,2



deficiencies increase the susceptibility of the eye to
Chromium
Serving DV
changes caused by prolonged close eye work. Myopic
Onions
1 cup
20,7
Lettuce
2 cups
13,1
people need to have a diet particularly rich in foods
Tomato
1 cup
7,5

that are good dietary sources of selenium, chromium and zinc. Of course, all other vision
macro and micronutrients (Vitamin A, C, D and E, omega3 fatty acids) must also present in
adequate quantities in their nutrition plan.
Aging Vision (Presbyopia)
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Presbyopia, commonly called aging vision, is an agerelated eyesight disorder. Unlike other
refractive errors and eye diseases, it is caused by the natural aging processes taking place in
the eye cel s 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.
Natural Dietary Sources and
Daily Value (DV%)
A study reported that increasing the amount of lutein
Vitamin E, Lutein &
in the diet resulted in an improvement in visual
Zeaxanthin

acuity (Olmedil a et al. 2003), while another study
Vitamin E
Serving DV
Sunflower seeds
1/4 cup
90,5
suggested that lutein supplementation might slow
(raw)
Almonds, roasted 1/4 cup
44,9
aging of the lens (Berendschot et al. 2002). Another
Olives
1 cup
20,1



study suggested that Vitamin E, which has very
Lutein &
Serving mg
beneficial effect in people with cataracts, helped
Zeaxanthin
Kale
1 cup
23,8
those with presbyopia improve their near vision.
Spinach
1 cup
20,4
Collards
1 cup
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
Natural Dietary Sources and
related eye diseases. Cataract affects the crystalline
Daily Value (%)
Zinc, Selenium, Chromium
lens of the eye and macular degeneration - the retina

of the eye. Cataract can be treated with eye surgery but
Vitamin C
Serving DV
Bell peppers
1 cup
291,3
little can be done for those with macular degeneration.
Broccoli
1 cup
205,7
Strawberries
1 cup
136,1



Fortunately, a proper diet and some healthy habits can
Vitamin A
Serving DV
Carrots
1 cup
686,3
greatly delay the onset of cataract and macular
Calf's liver
4 oz
609,7
Spinach
degeneration and may significantly slow down their
1 cup
377,3



progression.

Studies reported that higher dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin and vitamin E can
significantly decrease the risk of cataract formation. The AgeRelated Eye Disease Study
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(AREDS) determined that taking high levels of antioxidants and zinc can reduce the risk of
developing advanced agerelated 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 Natural y)
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 workout may be
suitable for helping different eyesight problems.

There are also eye exercises and relaxation techniques beneficial for general eye health and
prevention. The fol owing 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 ful 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 we've 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 wil take the vitamin amounts it needs
from the eyes and thus wil 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 wel being - 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 stepbystep vision exercise routines for
nearsightedness, farsightedness, aging vision and computer vision syndrome in Vision
Exercise and Relaxation Routines chapter, p. 74, Improve Your Vision Natural y) you will be
able to prevent, protect and improve eyesight naturally.
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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 wil find practical information and detailed step
bystep vision exercise routines that wil help them relieve the symptoms and even
completely cure their problem; those who stil enjoy perfect natural vision wil 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 wil also help you to:
* Learn how hereditary, environmental and lifestyle factors may harm your eyesight.
* Create a healthy vision diet that wil help your eyesight PLUS your general health.
* Evaluate your work place and rearrange it in a visionfriendly one.
* And much more...
Learn more now at www.naturallyimproveeyesight.com


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