How Foods Can Stop You From Losing Your Vision

re: How Foods Can Stop You From Losing Your Vision

Dr Rik — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:47:19 GMT

When I practiced in Hawaii, many local Asians went in for surgery for cataracts. They live on white rice, cooked and pickled vegetables and local fast food.
Some of them would go to the local Health Food store and in last minute desperation, on the advice of the sales person, supplement heavily with AntiOxidants, high in Vitamin C and the others. Their vision would clear in a few weeks and they would avoid surgery.
Never did the Medical surgeon suggest a trial of supplements.
Dr. Rik Cederstrom D.C.

re: How Foods Can Stop You From Losing Your Vision

mailmenow — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:22:13 GMT

The Chinese Wolfberry (lycium-barbarum, latin botanical name) also known as Tibetan Goji Berry is one of the richest sources of both lutein and zeaxanthin as well as essential polysaccharides, amino acids and many other nutrients. It has been attributed to health and longevity in a number of cultures that live over 100 years of age with little or no degenerative diseases at all. So eat some they taste great!
Steve Petersen

re: How Foods Can Stop You From Losing Your Vision

enzo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:31:30 GMT

That guy in the photo is about to lose half his vision…that left eye is about to pop its socket.

re: How Foods Can Stop You From Losing Your Vision

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:20:55 GMT

BEWARE a recent trend in mainstream processed food, and many dietary supplement products, touting Luetin (chemically extracted from tomatoes) as a marketing bullet point, on some processed brands.

Generally speaking, these processed versions are expensive and ineffective in dosages, of truly functional nutrients, to hype a particular brand.

As Dr. Mercola points out, these nutrients are naturally occurring and beneficial components, that can help vision, if consumed the way nature intended them to be consumed.

Therefore, such nutrients are BEST taken in naturally occurring food, that has not been messed with in a lab.

The TRICK hoisted on consumers is placing these functional ingredients in a branded product at low, or trace, amounts, that are not nonefficacious in dosage levels, for a phony/hyped health benefit to suck you in to purchasing the product. This is called "window dressing" in the beverage, dietary supplement, pharmaceutical, and food trade.

You can avoid be played for the fool, by avoiding such scams, and going for the nutrients where they best occur, in real natural unprocessed food.

re: How Foods Can Stop You From Losing Your Vision

Josh Rubin — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:20:09 GMT

There are many western and eastern things I feel that can help with vision. On the western side of it I use Neuromuscular Therapy on the 6 extrinsic eye muscles. How do you do that? Well you need to know where the muscles are, you use a qtip and role sup, inf, med and lateral under the skin of the eye. The extrinsic muscles all have a certain pull on the eye ball, which can and does affect vision if one is too short, etc.

On the easter side of it, well there is tons. I use TCM and foods to work on this. The LV is correlated with the eyes in chinese medicine. There are other organs as well, such as the HT and the SI. For simplification, when the LV is stagnated, has heat in it, etc, this can cause eye problems. The chinese use many herbs, as well as foods to work on this. In the Nei Jing, the use what is called the Law of Similars. They used foods that looked like the eyes to cure the eyes. So for eye dysfunctions they ate grapes, sesame seeds, rasberries and soy beans (our take on soy now is much diff from 2000yrs ago), etc.