Steps for eye care
In general, keeping near-normal blood glucose and eating right seem crucial to eye care. Writing in Diabetes Self-Management, Linnea Hagberg, RD, suggests “consuming leafy green vegetables like spinach, kale, collards, and broccoli.”
Hagberg also recommends corn, kiwifruit, red grapes, spinach, zucchini, yellow squash, orange peppers, orange juice, egg yolks, and Vitamin E as being good prevention for AMD and cataracts. For general diabetes eye health, she says:
- Wear sunglasses that protect the eyes from ultraviolet rays.
- Keep blood glucose under control.
- Stop smoking or cut back as much as possible.
• Choose brightly and deeply colored fruits and vegetables as often as possible. Include leafy green vegetables in your meals several times a week.
• Include plenty of vitamin C in your diet by choosing several daily servings of foods such as cantaloupe, strawberries, citrus fruits, kiwifruit, mango, papaya, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, sweet peppers, tomatoes, and cauliflower.
• Eat fatty fish two or three times a week. Limit total fat and commercially processed baked goods and snack foods.
• Have an annual eye exam (unless your doctor advises a different schedule) that includes dilating the pupils.
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