If it so obviously, and all this information has been available for many years, then why are we not stressing importance of vitamins and calcium to the eyes? Knowing Vitamins A and D are vital; you should also know that the body couldn’t fully utilize calcium without them. Vitamins A and D regulate the amount deposited in the bones and any bone disorder in the skull area can affect the eyes. Not just the protective sockets, but the bones of nose or jaws, even misaligned or decaying teeth. Too many reports have been written over the centuries of the evidence of what the proper nutrients can do for the eyes.
Think of it; how many times have you had an ophthalmologist, optometrist or anybody else who specializes in the science of vision ever mentioned their usefulness of vitamins and eye health? They usually won’t even bring it up unless you ask them first, and many won’t have an explanatory answer more then you can find on a vitamin bottle itself. Doctors need to stand up and speak out and testify to the public about prevention, and then possibly there will be less blindness and surgery procedures throughout the world.
The Prevention of Blindness Society offers disease detection programs, and warnings about having regular eye examinations and avoiding accidents, but yet still nothing whatever to say about nutrition. So my question is, “Why does more than half the American population wear glasses? This percentage also goes up to 92 per cent for people over forty-five!
Educators will tell you that at least half our school-age children have less than 20-20 visions. Eye patients make up more than 10 per cent of all hospitalized patients; there are 750,000 major eye operations each year. More than 2 million Americans over sixty-five have problems due to cataracts. Government surveys themselves, have proved that we are not getting sufficient amounts of these nutrients, particularly vitamin A. Also found was the range of "below-standard intakes" of vitamin A were as follows:
For children age 1 to 5, for males age 18 to 44, for women age 18 to 44, for adults 60 or older. In other words, at least half the people tested were not getting enough of this vitamin so critical to our immunity system, our body tissues, and many believe to our eyes. As for vitamin D- sun starvation (due to indoor living and air pollution), and the fact there are so few food sources, make a deficiency of vitamin D equally serious.
Think of it; how many times have you had an ophthalmologist, optometrist or anybody else who specializes in the science of vision ever mentioned their usefulness of vitamins and eye health? They usually won’t even bring it up unless you ask them first, and many won’t have an explanatory answer more then you can find on a vitamin bottle itself. Doctors need to stand up and speak out and testify to the public about prevention, and then possibly there will be less blindness and surgery procedures throughout the world.
The Prevention of Blindness Society offers disease detection programs, and warnings about having regular eye examinations and avoiding accidents, but yet still nothing whatever to say about nutrition. So my question is, “Why does more than half the American population wear glasses? This percentage also goes up to 92 per cent for people over forty-five!
Educators will tell you that at least half our school-age children have less than 20-20 visions. Eye patients make up more than 10 per cent of all hospitalized patients; there are 750,000 major eye operations each year. More than 2 million Americans over sixty-five have problems due to cataracts. Government surveys themselves, have proved that we are not getting sufficient amounts of these nutrients, particularly vitamin A. Also found was the range of "below-standard intakes" of vitamin A were as follows:
For children age 1 to 5, for males age 18 to 44, for women age 18 to 44, for adults 60 or older. In other words, at least half the people tested were not getting enough of this vitamin so critical to our immunity system, our body tissues, and many believe to our eyes. As for vitamin D- sun starvation (due to indoor living and air pollution), and the fact there are so few food sources, make a deficiency of vitamin D equally serious.
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