Vitamins and Eye Health

As with so many other aspects of our health and fitness, when it comes to eye health it is sadly only to obvious when people are not getting enough essential vitamins. Good nutrition and good vision go hand in hand. In developing countries around the world, children are prone to a disease called xerophthalmia. This debilitating illness causes childhood blindness and is caused by a simple lack of vitamin A. In more fortunate societies like ours, we don’t think twice about getting sufficient quantities of vitamin A. It’s found in liver, full fat dairy products, spinach, broccoli, tomato juice, peppers, watercress, mango, dried apricots, butternut squash, and sweet potatoes to name but a few! But it just goes to show how things we take for granted, like getting our fresh vegetables every day, support key functions in our bodies – like our precious eyesight.