Staying active and exercising are well known pillars of maintaining health especially as you age. However, your eyesight rarely gets enough attention as also being a contributing factor to your overall health. Maintaining your vision at “age appropriate” levels is just as important to your health and wellness as physical exercise and diet. Moreover, there are things you can do to take care of your vision along the way which will help keep you independent and healthy long into your later years.
In This Episode You Will Learn:
1). How our eyesight is key to our physical well being and independence especially as we grow older.
2). Why wearing the right glasses and keeping up with the maintenance on them is important to keeping you free of limitations (ie: walking, driving etc)
3). Some of the common reasons why taking care of our eyes gets put on the “back burner” more often than not which can lead to problems down the line.
4). How your diet has a direct correlation to your vision and eyesight health.
5). How smoking can effect you vision especially over a long period of time.
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We hope the tips in the episode are helpful to you especially if you are noticing issues with your eyesight or know that vision problems run in your family. There is no guarantee that your vision will be perfect as you get older but these tips will definitely help and give you the best chances of healthy eyesight for years to come.
Team Meredith