Carrots Are Good For The Eyes
As children, we all heard how good carrots for our eyes. But today, researchers looked at carrot in a new light.
Carrot healing potential far beyond their ability to help our vision. They contain various compounds that may help prevent certain cancers, lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.
A substance that gives color carrots orange rash they are also responsible for providing many of their health benefits.
• Carrots are rich in beta-carotene is a substance, an antioxidant free radicals, unstable molecules in the body that contribute to conditions ranging from cancer to heart disease and macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in elderly adults fighting.
• Research shows that more antioxidants in our diet, the less likely we are to die from cancer. In a 1556 study of middle-aged men, researchers at the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center and Northwestern University Medical School, both in Chicago, found that those with the highest levels of C beta-carotene and vitamins in their diet, 37 percent lower risk of death from cancer than men with the lowest levels had.
• Even if vitamin C is not added to the mixture, beta-carotene has a strong effect. Large population studies have shown that having low levels of beta-carotene to make people more open to the development of certain cancers, especially lung and stomach.
• The beta-carotene in carrots is doing double duty. It is converted into vitamin A in the body and helps improve vision. Eye appeal is so well known that the researchers in the Second World War, carrots are high in beta-carotene for pilots to see better at night grow.
• Vitamin A helps the vision to form a purple pigment eye needs to see in low light. This pigment, called rhodopsin, located on the light-sensitive retina. The more vitamin A you get, the more your body rhodopsin is capable of producing. Conversely, people with low levels of vitamin A may suffer from night blindness, which can make it difficult to drive at night or you find dirt in the dark building.
• A half cup serving of carrots contains 12 milligrams of beta carotene, about twice the amount you need to get the benefits.