* Lifestyle changes are sometimes needed to protect your eyesight. First of all, eat right. A healthful diet in green leafy vegetables, fish, fruit, and other foods high in antioxidants helps against age-related eye diseases.
* Watch your weight. Obesity has been linked to the progression of eye disease and cataracts, diabetes and glaucoma.
* Exercise. Regular physical activity lowers the eye pressure linked to glaucoma and reduces the diabetic retinopathy's progression.
* Control blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol level.
* Shield your eyes. Wearing sun glasses and a hat with a wide brim protects you from ultra violet rays and delays cataracts.
* Smoking is associated with all four eye disorders and drinking should be limited because it is known to increase the risk of cataracts. Cataracts are cloudy areas in an eye's lens formed by the clumping of heavy proteins as we age. "A comprehensive eye examination can be taken and a tiny probe be inserted that enables the physician to have the patient's cataract removed," says R. Linsy, a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem but if you can read and watch TV you do not have to have a cataract removed. It is an individual decision.
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