Four Nutritional Tips for Optimum Eye Health: Eating Your Way to Healthy Eyes

You have probably heard the old adage that ‘you are what you eat.’ What you consume plays an essential role in the cellular maintenance, growth, and functioning of your body. Maintaining a healthy diet, in addition to healthy lifestyle choices, optimizes your vision. This is especially true as we age we need various vitamins and minerals to keep our eyes working properly.

The following are four crucial tips to help you eat your way to healthy eyes and a healthy life:

1.      Beta-carotene: Eat those carrots

What’s up doc? It seems that Bugs Bunny knew a thing or two about healthy eyes. Carrots are high in beta-carotene, an anti-oxidant that decreases your risk for developing cataracts and macular degeneration. Eat them raw, put them in salads, cook them in a stew, just be sure to eat your carrots!

2.      Vitamin C

Vitamin C can be found in a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables and is another key anti-oxidant proven to protect your eyes. If you love fruit, then kiwis, oranges, and strawberries are excellent choices as they rank among the highest in Vitamin C. Also try guavas and papayas.

Several vegetables are incredibly high in Vitamin C: bell peppers, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and peas. These are great in salads, as snacks, in soups, roasted, or steamed. Eat them greens!

3.      Zinc

It’s time to think Zinc! Zinc is found in your retina where it helps the functioning of enzymes for optimum eye function. Studies have shown that people with macular degeneration often had low zinc levels.

Foods high in Zinc include: sea food, spinach (Go Popeye!), nuts such as cashews, cocoa and chocolate (an excuse to eat chocolate!), pork and chicken, and mushrooms.

Think Zinc for optimal eye health and maintenance. 

4.      Omega-3 Fats

Studies have shown that Omega-3 fats are excellent for cardiovascular health. Well, good news, they also help protect the tiny blood vessels buried in your eyes. If you love sea food such as wild salmon, oysters, sardines, herring, halibut, and fresh tuna then eat your heart out...or, umm, rather healthy!

A healthy diet accompanied with regular eye exams can help you optimize your eye sight for a healthy, full life.

For more information or to schedule an eye exam call Vision Pro to set up an appointment or stop into one of our 10 locations today!

Spring into Summer Contest

If you are like me you have probably sat on your sunglasses bending them out of shape, or dropped them and scratched the lenses. Or worse, you dropped them in the lake and watched them sink into the depths. Dang it! There goes another pair! Any on these scenarios sound familiar? If so, this may be the contest for you.

Spring into summer with some new shades! This week Vision Pro’s Spring into Summer  contest will award one lucky customer a pair of quality, name brand sunglasses up to $150 in value! If you have been afraid to treat yourself to some nice sunglasses this is the contest for you. Visit our Facebook page to enter. It only takes a few moments for a chance to win. And even of you don’t win, come see us, we have great deals on brands like Ray-ban, Oakley, Versace, Bolle, and more.

Visit our Facebook page to enter, or stop into one of our 10 locations and treat yourself to some quality sunglasses. Our professional staff will help you find the right shades to showcase your unique look!

Four Tips for Selecting the Perfect Eye Glass Frames

Vision Pro Optical Can Help You Select the Perfect Eye Glass Frames or Sunglasses for Your Unique Look.

One of the most wonderful things about the world is the diversity of people and how unique each of us look. Whether you have curly hair or straight hair, long hair or short, a square head or a round one, you can find the perfect eye glass frames to accentuate your best features and personal style. Here are four tips to help you select the perfect frames.

1. Contrast
The shape of the frames you select should typically contrast the shape of your face: if you have a sharp, angular face you want round frames; if you have a round face than you want more angular frames.

 2. Color
When selecting a color you want it to compliment your features. Black is the standard color to highlight your eyes. A color that contrasts the tone of your skin or hair will stand out more.

3. Proportion
This is rather simple: you want your frames to be in proportion to your face. Sunglasses tend to be slightly larger for more coverage.

 4. Face Shape
This is where things can seem a bit complicated. Whether you have a round, heart, diamond, oval, or square shaped face we’ll help you find the frames best suited to your unique look.

Our eye care professionals at Vision Pro will help you select eye glass frames or sunglasses that compliment your face’s best features while also considering your individual skin, eye, and hair coloring.

Call to set up an appointment or stop into one of our 10 locations today!