Diet gun

Our eyes are responsible for seeing the world around us and are an important part of your overall health.

One of the most important factors that help with eye health is consuming natural nutritious foods such as a variety of fruits and vegetables, lean protein and healthy fats that contain the necessary elements that will protect our eyes from damage and help improve our vision.

Also, limiting the intake of processed foods, refined sugar and unhealthy fats will help reduce the occurrence of eye diseases such as cataracts and macular degeneration.

Vitamins A, C and E, zinc, selenium and antioxidants help protect our eyes from damage caused by free radicals (substances that in normal quantities protect us from viruses, parasites and microbes, but when they exceed a safety limit in the body, they begin to cause diseases and damage to body organs, even affecting DNA).

Eating the following foods will help us keep our eyes healthy as long as possible, before the normal deterioration due to age occurs.

1. Dark green leafy vegetables

Leafy green vegetables such as spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, are sources of lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants that are essential for protecting your eyes from damage caused by free radicals.

They also help reduce the development of macular degeneration, an age-related eye disease that can cause vision loss.

2. Orange and yellow fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables that are orange and yellow contain beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A and is important for good vision.

Sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, red peppers, apricots, cantaloupe, and mango are rich in beta-carotene.

3. Berries, raisins, and red grapes

All berries, raisins, and red grapes contain anthocyanins.

Anthocyanins are powerful antioxidants that fight free radicals and help reduce the appearance of cataracts and macular degeneration.

4. Nuts and seeds

Almonds, walnuts, and chia seeds are rich in vitamin E, which, like anthocyanins, helps reduce the appearance of cataracts and macular degeneration and acts as an antioxidant against free radicals.

5. Eggs

Eggs contain the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, which may help prevent age-related vision loss, and they contain vitamins C and E, as well as zinc.

6. Fish

Salmon, sardines, tuna, mackerel are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which help protect the eyes from macular degeneration, dry eye syndrome and proper drainage of aqueous humor from the eye, reducing the risk of hypertension and glaucoma.

7. Beef, lean meat and poultry

Zinc is found in the retina of the eye and in the vascular tissue surrounding the retina.

Zinc, which is mainly found in beef, poultry and meat in general, has been linked to the prevention of macular degeneration

Lean meat and poultry also contain vitamin A.

8. Foods containing selenium

Selenium is a very powerful antioxidant and also helps prevent free radicals from increasing excessively in the body.

It is mainly found in walnuts, brazil nuts, meat, fish, oysters, cereals, mushrooms.

9. Foods containing vitamin C

Vitamin C, like selenium, is a powerful antioxidant and helps prevent free radicals from increasing excessively in the body.

It is mainly found in peppers, kale, brussels sprouts, broccoli & cauliflower, cabbage, garlic, fronds (carrot greens), tomatoes, kiwi, strawberries, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, papaya, mango, pineapple.

10. Water

A hydrated body helps relieve dry eye syndrome, which causes symptoms that can affect the performance of our daily activities.


Practical shooting and food for our eyes health

In practical shooting and shooting in general, eye health is particularly important because it is more active than other sports.

Eye diseases, such as simple myopia, appear from a young age, often in childhood and are not related to the increase in free radicals in the body.

Diseases such as presbyopia are the result of normal age-related changes in the crystalline lens and the components that support it as we grow older.

With proper nutrition, and as long as our genes help us, we will not eliminate the appearance of presbyopia or other age-related changes, but we can delay it. You will certainly have acquaintances who developed presbyopia at the age of 40 – 45, while others are approaching their 60s and have now begun to show symptoms of presbyopia.

In general, age-related diseases can be delayed for a few years with proper nutrition, but we cannot eliminate them. The human body is perishable and this cannot be changed.

All the foods mentioned above that are related to good eye health are also related to good health in general.

By improving our diet, we improve our training, we improve the health of our eyes, we improve our health in general, we improve our life.