APRIL 23, 2008Provided by RealAge.com

Nuts About Your Eyes

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Regardless of their shape, size, or type, fatty foods may be bad for your eyes. With this exception: nuts!
Yep, eating nuts at least once a week may help protect your peepers from vision-stealing conditions like macular degeneration.

Feed Your Vision
Scientists discovered that people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) could slow down the disease by eating one or more servings of nuts a week. Makes sense. The supernutrients in nuts -- vitamin E, copper, magnesium, fiber, and resveratrol -- all help protect against blood vessel problems that might contribute to AMD. (Use RealAge Smart Search to learn more about the condition.)

More Sight Savers
Not so nuts about nuts? Here are some other ways to keep your eyes sharp. How's your vision? Take the Amsler Eye Test at the end of this eye-health article.

RealAge Benefit: Eating a diet low in saturated and trans fats can make your RealAge as much as 6 years younger.



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