DISEASE

Message of common value







DAILIES: SAY IT WITH
YOUR EYES!


METAMORPHOSIS
(=curved lines)




THIS MAY INDICATE AGE
RELATED MACULA
DEGENERATION
WHAT IS CATARACT?



CLOUDING OF THE LENS
WHY DO YOU REGULAR NEED
EYE EXAMINATION WHEN YOU
HAVE GLAUCOMA? 



YOU DON'T FEEL ANYTHING
BUT YOUR EYE CAN GET BLIND
SLOWLY
WHEN THE EYE PRESSURE
IS TO HIGH!


ARE THERE...
DISCREET MAGNIFIERS?



YES,  SUCH AS EASYPOCKET


SHOW YOUR EYES ...
WITH LENSES !!!


LENSES....
SO EASY !





HOLIDAYS = LENSES




YOU ONLY HAVE  2 EYES:

CHECK YEARLY !

SEE CLEARLY  !

Carrots aren't  the best nutrition for the retina
  • BOUSSON LIESELOT - DIETICIAN

  • EATING CARROTS DOESN' T GIVE YOU THE GOOD VITAMINE A

  • SPINACH HOLDS THE IMPORTANT VITAMINE A : LUTEINE AND ZEAXANTINE

  • BROCCOLI TOO

  • SALMON HOLDS A LOT OF OMEGA 3 FATTY ACIDS (like all the other fatty fishtypes )

  • SMOKING INDUCES TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

INFLUENCE OF NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENT ON YOUR EYES

WEAR

In older age, a lot of people face “wear” phenomenes, who are difficult to repear and where you should leran to live with. 1 of the main causes of wear in the human body is OXIDATION:  Tissue get ruptured by reaction processes with oxigen, whereby reactive substances are formed (“free radicals”) who damages cells en tissues. 
Fortunately, the body can recover, but there are limits to a recoverproces!

EYE WEAR

The age related wear phenomenes at the eyes are: CORNEA CLOUDING, CATARACT  (= CLOUDING OF THE LENS) AND MACULADEGENERATION (= WEAR AT THE CENTRAL PART OF THE RETINA).  Fortunately the first two problems can be solved elegantly with surgery. For macula degeneration, who effect over 25% of the 80 year olds , however, little or nothing can be done. This can lead sometimes to difficult or non-treatable visual impairment or blindness! 
 
MACULA WEAR

  1) CAUSE OF MACULA WEAR 

   THE CENTER OF THE RETINA IS THE "MACULA".   This zone makes it happens to see Sharp, especially the central part of the macula: “the fovea” . Therefore are a lot of chemical processes needed, who requiers a lot of energie. Therefore it won’t surprise you that the metabolism in the center of the retina is one of the most actif metabolism of our entire body. The retina receives the most blood compared to other tissues!

WELL: THE RETINA  (AND ESPECIALLY THE MACULA) HAS A LOT OF “OXIDATIVE STRESS”.  The retina faces a lot of energie (= light) and it is an oxigen-rich environment (it has a good bloodcirculation). Especially the blue light is very energetic and can give damages. 

THE RETINA IS MOREOVER SENSITIVE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS: there are many poly-unsaturated fatty acids (omega 3 and 6 fatty acids) in the membranes of the photoreceptors. Those poly-unsaturated fatty acids have doublebonds, who are easily broken by oxigen.  Result: the photoreceptors are constantly being broken to recover from oxidative stress. This gives rise to deposition of waste products (especially lipofuchsine) under the retina (at the Bruchs membrane),what reduces the supply of nutrients at the retina: dry wear. That dry wear can turn into “wet” wear, wich is worse when there are ingrowing bloodvessels.

PROTECTING PIGMENTS like black melanine, yellow zeaxantine and luteine absorbs light and offset the free radicals, so there is less damage.The pigments works like “anti-oxidants”.  That’s why beginning macula degeneration evolves less to severe forms in dark pigmented people  (Africans / men have more pigments than women)
The fovea has more pigments (especially Zeaxantine). 


2) WHY GIVE IT ONE AND THE OTHER NOT?

Mostly it’s about individual sensitivity. There is genetic predisposition, in certain families macula degeneration it is more common. It is true: a poor health (hart-,  liver -and kidney diseases /use of steroids) accelerate the aging! It seems that a bad bloodcirculation is an important factor. That makes the metabolism malfunctioning. Artheriosclerosis (by hypertension / diabetes / cholesterol / smoking) plays an important role in visual impairment!  

Also the living conditions play a role:  POLLUTION /INCREASED OZONE CONCENTRATION  aging our body faster and threaten our health. Civilization brings along his own diseases: cancer, heart- and vascular diseases. Our eyes have also more burden in the modern civilization. Computerwork isn’t such a problem.
Well the increased presents of toxines (nicotine / dioxine / phosphates and nitrates). The felling of trees confront us more with harmful UV light!

Still 2 general remarks :
 
  • If you’re not careful at young age, you do not notice much. Most some reduced vitality and a little bit more infectious diseases. Only when you’re getting old, you’ll expierence faster troubles with artherioscleriosis and cancer. Then, there’s not much more to be done. That’s why it’s for the best starting with good habitats at a young age. Teach them also to your children.
  • Because there is individual sensitivity for wear, it can be possible that their occur wear phenomenes, despite a healty way of living, while other people who leading an unhealty life have sometimes no wear phenomenes.


3) TREATMENT OF MACULA WEAR

For wet macula degeneration laser or injections can be a solution.

We can’t help people with dry macula degeneration, because it is hereditary. Only prevention helps.

From the above, we can distillate next guidelines :
 
  • SUNGLASSES.  This is important by young people, where the lens is cristal clear !!
  • Persue GOOD  health.  
  • Persue GOOD BLOODCIRCULATION.   That means prevent artherioscleriosis!  1 glass of red wine can improve your circulation. Also anticoagulant medication (like aspirin) can help. Of statins (cholesterol reducing products)  is proved that they can reduce artherioscleriosis.
    We can also aspect a beneficial effect on the eyes!
  • Provide polyunsaturated fatty acids: OMEGA 3FATTY ACIDS  (especially DHA and lesser extent EPA). This works: People in Iceland and Japan eat more fatty fish with a lot of omega 3 fatty acids and the incidence of macula degeneration is significantly lower. 
  • OFFERING PIGMENT: Lutein and Zeaxantin wich are well presented in the fovea. Lutein can be transfered to Zeaxantin. With aging, the pigment of the macula reduces (by other eating habbits /less intake) Good food (cabbage / spinach / broccoli and corn)  brings along pigments. The more lutein and zeaxanthine you eat (cfr infra), the less chance on macula degeneration. There is also a protection against cataract, because those pigments also occur in your own lens and keep them clean! 

MORE PIGMENT AND MORE OMEGA 3FATTY ACIDS

OUR BODY ITSELF CAN NOT CREATE  OMEGA 3FATTY ACIDS AND PIGMENTS.  SO: THEY ARE “VITAMINS”.
YOU CAN GET VITAMINS VIA GOOD AND HEALTHY FOOD OR BY SUPPLEMENTS


 1) SUPPLEMENTS

Nutrof omega , Lutom 3 and Preservision 3  give aswell lutein and zeaxantin as omega 3 fatty acids!!  Many people doubt about the effect of vitamins.
Vitamins can really help with macula degeneration!

 
 
 
TIPS :
 
  • Especially those who have HEREDITARY BURDEN, we would advise vitamins.  Everybody can have benefits of it: 
    Now people are getting older and older, we have to prevent the wear phenomenes at the eyes.
  • Especially usefull with elderly and diabetici, who eat less fruit and vegetables!
  • Especially usefull in winter, when there are less fruits and vegetables !
  • Beware with too much VITAMINES K, A, D and E, because a too much quantity can be toxic for the body- also too much of zinc can be harmful!
    That’s why it’s better to take a mulit-vitamin preparation ! The introduced quantities are adjusted to our needs! You don’t need to take those pills each day.
  • Omega 3 Fattyacids supplements (bvb  Retinat  o.a ) : take in during the diner, otherwise you have a fish oil flavour.      
  • It’s not certain if nutrition supplements are as useful as natural food. Real fruit and vegetables are therefore better than the supplements and cheaper!      Nutrition supplements are better than nothing! Especially older people have advantages of nutrition supplements, because their intestinal absorption is reduced! An overdose could be beneficial in this case!


2) PERSUIT GOOD FOOD AND A GOOD ENVIRONMENT 
    

Adverse environment factors, to be avoided :
  • SIGARETS anti-oxydants in your blood are reduced by smoking (anti-oxydants are substances, who neutralise harmful substances in our body- the classic example of an anit-oxydant is vitamin E + C !)
  • A DUSTY, DIRTY ENVIRONMENT irritant the eyes at the outside. Eventually the inflammation can affect the function of the eyes , intake of vitamins can improve the recovery processes!
  • ALCOHOL more than 1 to 2 glasses a day is harmful for the eyes in long terms. Also for the rest of the body: liver disorders / hart rhythm disorders / chance on diabetes!
  • EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT (or equivalent: radiation energy) gives faster cataract. Advise: wear your sunglasses more often (with good UV protection /
    the bigger, the better / start it when you’re young / blue filter reduces the harmful blue light! ) and a cap to protect you of the sun. Excessive exposure to the sun isn’t only bad for your eyes! The skin also get affected by the sun:  improved chance on skin cancer / more wrinkles!
  • COMPUTER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND CARLIGHTS  of oncoming traffic aren’t harmful to the eyes. Irritating eyes can tolerate this not quite well!
    Glasses with tinted glasses can improve your comfort.
     
Protective factors from nutrition, who help to intercept with the environment factors : "anti-oxydants". These prevent damages by reactive substances, that our body is confronted to (o.a by air pollution and smoking!). Here below you can find a enumeration of the principals and their appearance:
  • Vit A : eggs, milk and fish
  • Vit C : fruit (preferable fresh!), especially citrus
  • Vit E : spinach - walnuts - avocado - soja beans – vegetable oils
  • Soja proteins (in sojamilk) lower the cholesterol and are good by cow milk allergy (allergy to proteins and lactose) !
  • Vitamine E gives a better immune and protect you against the Alzheimer disease (=dementia) and heart attacks
  • Selenium: animal meat / broccoli / fat fish /whole wheat bread / crustaceans and eggs
  • Carotenoïds:  (biological pigments, who gives fruit and vegatables their orange-red color). Lutein and are very important. They occur mostly in the center of the retina.  You find luteine in vegatables with green leafs (spinache,cabbage, broccoli, yolk, maïs, celery and endive).
    Citrus and peaches contains zeaxantine. Also tomatoes, mango and watermelon are great sources of carotenoïds ! Cultivated tomatoes
    (like ketchup, juice and spaghettisauce) would even be better. Carrots contains caroteen A and B, who aren’t so important for the lens and retina! Do you want good eyes: don’t eat carrots, but spinach (or other dark green vegatables!)
  • Polyphenols: strengthen the bloodvessels / improves the microcirculation / protect against cancer: in grapes (also in red wine!) and dark colored fruit (blueberries) / apples / tea.
  • Trace elements, like zinc: improves our metabolism (technical: "trace elements are needed for the functioning of many enzymes”).
    Eat oysters and cereals to complement your zinc content in a natural way.
  • Non essential bio-active substances (= substances that our body can make itself) are also important anti-oxydants and energysuppliers.
    Extra intake can help. We think of substances like NADH  (in raw meat, fish and poultry), co- enzyme Q-10 (in cereals, vegatables
    (especially in spinach), meat, sardines, legume and dairy products) and creatine (in meat and fish). Glycosinolates (in cabbage and garlic) can free our body of toxic substances! 
  • Omega- 3 fatty acids : eat fat fish (cfr Japanese people: Anchovy / herring / mackerel / pike / sardines / salmon and salmon trout /albacore) and nuts. The body can’t make these essential fatty acids itself (especially DHA and and in lesser extent EPA) ,but they do improve the fat-metabolism. This protects against macula degeneration (characterized by accumulation of fat) . These omega-fatty acids are also very good for heart- and bloodvessels (evoiding heart attacks and rythm disfunctioning in heart attacks) , depressions,demention, cancer (especially breast, prostate and intestine) and too much cholesterol!
REMARK  Fast food offers less oxydants than regular food !

HEALTHY EYES IN A HEALTHY BODY

What good is for your eyes, is usually good for your whole body. In reverse: the healthier your body, the healthier your eyes. Therefore these general diet wisdom,
which are not so well known:
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT are more important than meat. They contains of vitamins and lower the content of cholesterol in your blood .
Some extra tips about vegatables and fruit:
  • Relish smart and eat an apple ! It’s not only healthy for your teeth, but it also stops aging symptoms 
  • One apple a day keeps the doctor away! Eat fruit by breakfast and dinner ! 8 pieces of fruit and vegetables should lower the risk on heart- and bloodvessel disfunctions with 15%.
  • Manage your family budget properly: Fruit and vegetables are cheaper and yet valuable food than meat!
  • Barbecue? Prepare 10 types fruit and vegetables and only 2 to 3 sorts of meat – not vice versa! Don’t let the meat burn too long!
  • In former times we lived in the bush: many fruit and vegetables – little meat ! Our body can’t adjust itself in a few decades to the current habbits, consisting of a lot of meat and little vegetables and fruit ! 
  • The vegetariens are right in a way: meat isn’t needed in large quantities – vegetables and fruit well !
  • Don’t say: "at least eat your meat!" Do say: "Leave your meat – at least eat your vegetables and fruit.”
  • You don’t have to eat fruit always in his natural form: meager yoghourt with added fruit / selfmade orange juice / banana as spreads / raw vegetables instead of chocolat or chips by TV / fruitpie is better than creampie ! Remember that fresh fruitis more “usefull” than cultivated fruit !
  • Put some vegetables on your sandwich (=lettuce/ watercress) / use fruit as a snack instead of candy
  • Children don’t like to eat many kinds of new fruits. Let them at least taste it !
  •  Exercising is good to improve your bloodcirculation. Also your metabolism, heart, lungs and intestines get activated ! And the energy, that is used by exercising is usefull to reduce the fat reserves ! Walking is not sufficient enough. Mow the grass. Bike to your work. Take the stears instead of the elevator. Go dancing with friends. Go play with your children or play tennis. 5 times a week 30 minutes exercising is perfect. You don’t have to run a marathon! Swimming is also a good sport, because you practice all muscles, without overloading your joints.
  • Watch the fat content of your food. High cholesterol gives faster artheriosclerosis!
  • Keep your weight under control. It’s not only prettier, but you have less chance on diabetes (type II) and your heart has less load!
    That’s why: If you’re feeling saturated, quit eating, even when there are some more goodies on the table.
  •  One glas of red wine a day, keeps also the doctor away – you can’t drink more than one glass a day, otherwise it becomes unhealthy ! 1 glass of beer is also ok, because it contains a lot of vitamin B and calcium! Alcohol (in a moderate way !) opens up your bloodvessels and gives a calming effect to reduce the stress of our dailiy life. It would lower the cholesterol and has a non-caking effect.

GOOD FOOD HABBITS
  • Eat a varied diet: just in that way you can take all nutrients!
  • Eat a lot of vegetables, fruit (4 a 5 pieces a day! ) and wholegrain cereals (brown bread).
  • Moderate use of
  • meat (100 gr / day !)
  •  fat (preferable unsaturated fats – those are mostly from plants or fish – if you use margarines, use becel, vitelma or analogues – frying oil is better than frying fat – don’t exceed the temperature of 185 °, otherwise the fat becomes more agressive – watch out for fat spreads
    (= sausage / meatloaf and cheese)
  •  sugar (especially added sugar!)
  •  salt (as less as possible! Sea salt is as bad as regular salt! Rather eat fish and dairy, to evoid salt. Chips and salt cookies are therefore very bad snacks! Eat two times a week fish!
Drink a lot of water (1.5 liter – spreaded over the day. Evoid strong minilerized (=salt) water like appolinaris , Top, St Léger and Vichy and ligt milkproducts (brings calcium for the bones and should lower the bloodpressure! Soja milk should lower the cholesterol! )  Eat on regular times (not more than 5 times a day, otherwise it’s harmful for the teeth – don’t skip breakfast!  Eat a lot of fibres (= in fruit and vegetables): this loers the cholesterol and the chance on cancer. Fibres give a feeling of satiety, so you will stop eating faster and you are less hungry for a snack. Evoid “stimulating” nutrition, like cola and coffee. Don’t drink “stress”! The non-cafeine forms are better ! Coffee should raise the cholesterol and the homocysteine in our blood! Both factors raise the chance on heart- and vesseldiseases ! Tea is better: it contains good polyphenols and two times less cafeine than in coffee !  Live mediterranean, than you have less chance on heart- and vesseldiseases: use olive oil (healthy, because of their manounsaturated fatty acids) /  fish  (contain many essential fatty acids, who our body can’t make itself – crab and schrimps contains a lot of cholesterol) and poultry instead of red meat /
a lot of pasta / fresh fruit / 1 a 2 glasses (red) wine a day – during meal / tea (more than coffee) / Yogurt instead of whole milk / using garlic (good for hypertension – however bad for the breath odor !) / siësta (= half an hour rest) after meal (also enough sleep: 8 H a day is still the target)

CONCLUSION

We hope that you’ve discovered some bad eating habbits by yourself !  Write them down and try to do something about it! You will be rewarded for it on the long term ! Don’t wait untill you’ve got an heart attack, eyeproblems or cancer to change your eating habbits! 

It’s for the best that the whole family get involved by the new eating habbits. In that way, you’ll be able to sustain longer, so your new habbits become a healthy way of living. Let the family read this text and discuss about bad habbits who are easily changable! Ask for additional explanation by your doctor or dietist! Realize that fruit and vegetables are very important for your body, and are very tastefull and delicious! Many people hold their fruit as “dessert” ! Why you wouldn’t change your eating habbits, if healthy also means: tastier and cheaper!
You can’t replant old trees.
You surely can by new trees: It proves of “youth”, if you manage to improve your less good habbits !

 
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