Dietary Therapy to Recharge Your Eyes
When using computers, reading, or watching TV, do you often feel eye dryness, soreness, or fatigue? Overuse of eyes is a major cause of eye strain. Typical symptoms include blurred vision after prolonged viewing, difficulty writing or reading, dry eyes, dizziness, headaches, and in severe cases, nausea and vomiting. Moreover, eye strain can lead to myopia in adults or early presbyopia, and increases risk of cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachment, and other eye diseases.
To protect eyes, prevent visual damage, and reduce eye fatigue, besides ensuring adequate lighting, maintaining proper posture, taking breaks, and doing eye exercises, another crucial step is to nourish the eyes with proper nutrients.
Modern medical research shows a close relationship between vitamins and eye diseases, as well as vision quality. Those who overuse their eyes need more vitamins and minerals essential for eye health. Properly supplementing these nutrients is vital for protecting eyes, preventing visual damage, treating eye diseases, and improving vision.
Therefore, those experiencing eye fatigue should maintain balanced diet and nutrition, regularly eating coarse grains, mixed grains, green vegetables, tubers, legumes, and fruits rich in vitamins, proteins, and fiber. Here are two proven dietary remedies for eye fatigue:
★ Black Bean and Walnut Milk Shake
Ingredients: 1 spoon black bean powder, 1 spoon walnut paste, 1 pack milk, 1 spoon honey.
Preparation: Roast 500g black beans until cool, grind into powder. Roast 500g walnut kernels slightly until browned, remove skins, cool, mash into paste. Mix 1 spoon of each powder with 1 cup of boiled milk, add 1 spoon honey, stir well. Consume every morning or after breakfast, or with breakfast. Black beans are rich in protein and vitamin B1, highly nutritious. As black foods enter the kidneys, combined with walnuts, they enhance kidney tonification. Adding milk and honey, which contain abundant vitamin B1, calcium, phosphorus, etc., strengthens ocular muscle power and improves accommodation, alleviating eye fatigue symptoms.
★ Goji Berry and Mulberry Porridge
Ingredients: 5g goji berries, 5g mulberries, 5g Chinese yam, 5 red dates, 100g rice.
Preparation: Cook all ingredients into porridge. Goji berries and mulberries nourish liver and kidneys; Chinese yam and red dates strengthen the spleen and stomach. Those with eye fatigue can consume this porridge twice daily (morning and evening) over a long period, effectively relieving eye fatigue and enhancing overall constitution.