Monday, April 25, 2011

New Vitamin a

By Dominic Bowen


HEALTHY eyes rely on a large range of food and minerals. Here are the vitamins you want to maintain a good vision

Vitamin A. It may protect surfaces in the eye against oxidative damage and is known to have a role in the repair of cells which have been wounded. Foods with Vitamin An are liver, dairy products and eggs.

Vitamin C. It is found in high concentrations in the tissues of the eye. Deficiencies could lead to many eye issues.

Foods high in Vitamin C are kalamansi, blackcurrants, strawberries and citrus fruits.

*Zinc. It is present in several tissues in the eye, where it is thought to play a protecting role against age-related damage.

Eggs, seafood, meats, nuts and legumes all are high in zinc. Potatoes in the United Kingdom, each person eats 207lb of this flexible plant each year and surveys suggest two thirds of us believe - in the case of the jacket spud at least - that it qualifies as one of our suggested 'five portions of fruit and veg a day '. But , shockingly, it doesn't, according to the government at least.

Vitamin a Regardless of the proven fact that the potato is a hundred % natural, fat and cholesterol-free and packed full of vitamins and minerals, the Office of Health ( DoH ) has never included it in the 'five a day ' criteria since it launched its healthy-eating campaign in March 2003. Actually it doesn't even class the potato as a vegetable at all .

'Potatoes are botanically categorized as a plant, but they're classified nutritionally as a starchy food, ' says a DoH speaker. 'This is actually because when eaten as part of a meal, they are generally used in the place of other starchy carbohydrates, for example bread, pasta or rice.




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