We should take our mothers' advice: eating vegetables keeps blindness away.
Age-related macular degeneration causes vision loss in Americans aged 60 and over, but many studies show that foods rich in lutein and zeaxanthin help protect against it, as these substances are antioxidants.
The body can't make them; they come from food, mainly from green leafy vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, courgettes and kale, and from yellow and orange fruit and vegetables such as peaches, carrots and squash. The study was published in the Journal of Lipid Research in August 2008.
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