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Age-related eye problems? This could work...
19th October 2008
You spotted it, didn't you?
I'm talking about the eyesight test I sent you a
few weeks ago when a few Good Life Letters were
sent to you in much smaller print than usual.
All right maybe I didn't actually MEAN to send
you the letters in that format. But thanks to my
computer doing things behind my back yet again,
the words came out as small as the last line on an
optician's eye test.
I found it almost impossible to read when it hit my
inbox, and I know many Good Lifers did too.
But weirdly enough, it served a useful purpose. It
reminded me how important our eyesight is to us,
and how frustrating and worrying it is if it starts to
fail.
I mean, it's one thing wearing glasses or contact
lenses (although contact lenses give me the hee
bee gee bees) for reading or driving, but it's
another thing entirely to start losing your sight
properly.
Luckily, there's a whole lot you can do to not only
protect your eyesight, but to actually REVERSE
eye deterioration without resorting to surgery.
It's a three step programme, with step three being
the most exciting in my opinion.
But don't cheat!
Start with Step One, and read these in order...
Step One: Create an 'eyegym' to strengthen
your sight
Right by this I don't mean make your eyes pull
weights and hold their stomachs in whenever an
attractive female eye walks past (chaps, if you've
ever been to a gym you know what I'm talking
about)...
This is just a simple way to help relax your eyes
and keep them from wearing out. Just follow the
steps below, and your eyes will thank you for it:
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- Virtual sprints - look at something nearby,
then shift your focus to something in the
distance. Repeat this ten times, each time
looking at something further and further away.
Remember at school when the sports master
used to make you run to a bollard or a wall,
touch it, then run back? Well this is the same
exercise for your eyes.
- Get blinking - blink every three seconds. This
will exercise your eyes by making them
refocus rapidly.
- The pen trick - hold a pen about two feet
away from your eyes, then slowly move it in
until it touches your nose, keeping your eyes
on it all the way. It'll make you go cross-eyed,
which is a good exercise.
- Sit straight and move your eyes quickly
around the room, focussing on a different
object each time before quickly moving off to
another. DON'T move your head.
- Virtual weight machine... keep your head still
and move your eyes up as far as you can,
then down as far as you can WITHOUT
straining. Do this three times. Repeat the same
exercise going side to side.
- Create an angle... do the above exercises
again, but this time go diagonally, from left to
right and right to left.
- Warm down... at the end of your exercises,
relax your eyes by placing your palms over
your closed eyes, but make sure your palms
don't make contact with your eyelids. You are
simply trying to block out as much daylight as
possible. Keep your eyes closed for two
minutes.
Step Two: Eat your way to better eyesight
Okay, you've got the exercises done, now you
need to know which foods that can bolster your
eye health, quickly and easily:
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- The two 'B' berries... blueberries and
bilberries. Both are excellent for keeping eyes
fit and healthy, but bilberries would edge it if it
came to a straight race between the two.
Bilberries have a powerful ingredient called
anthocyanosides, which help protect and
improve the tiny capillaries that feed the eyes,
control inflammation and gently fight any free
radicals that wander into this sensitive area.
If you haven't tried bilberries before (or
bilberry extract), then make it a priority.
- The two stereotypes that really work... an
apple a day keeps the doctor away so they
say. Well it also helps keep the optician away
too. Eat at least one apple a day (as the
rhyme tells you to).
The other stereotype...? Well, what do you
bring when you visit someone in hospital?
Grapes of course. This is another excellent
fruit for your eyesight, so if you fancy
snacking on something, snack on these.
- Boost your intake of vitamin A... turnips,
tomatoes, lettuce, cabbage, peas and dates
all have a good amount stuffed in them. And
of course let's not forget stereotype no. 3 -
carrots.
- Copy Popeye. Spinach is one of the best all-
round good guys. It helps keep your blood
clean and healthy, which means that your eyes
will get a higher-quality supply of blood
pumped up to them.
Right, that's the exercises and food taken care of.
Now all that's left is Step 3 - and this is the best
of the lot:
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Step 3: How to delay AND reverse age-related
eye problems almost INSTANTLY
Macular degeneration is something that many
people think is inevitable with old age.
I used to think the same myself.
But this remarkable solution made me think twice.
This has been developed by a man called Chet
Cunningham... someone who was told by his
doctor that his eyesight was in freefall.
Yet nowadays he can drive without his glasses,
read without his glasses, and watch TV without
having his chair practically pulled up to the screen.
To find out what Chet did to reverse his eye
problems, and how you can do the same EASILY -
just read his story right here:
CLICK HERE
Right-oh. That's me finished for the day. I'm off to
pester the family to go out and do something nice
- like buy me a pub lunch.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I'll be back
again next week.
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