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Limiting these foods can help control the amount of toxin buildup in your body<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How your diet impacts eye health: Foods to avoid for better vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Having a healthy diet is essential to maintaining your eye health as you age. While it\u2019s always important to add nutrition to your diet through fruits, vegetables and whole grains, it\u2019s also essential to cut out certain foods which may be compromising your eye health over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are five foods you should try to limit to preserve your visual acuity and keep your eyes healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. White bread and pasta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simple carbohydrates like those found in white bread and pasta are easily digested and absorbed, which can spike blood sugar1<\/sup>. These rapid spikes put strain on the pancreas, which tries to keep the body\u2019s blood sugar level steady2<\/sup>. If the pancreas is chronically stressed, then this can impair its ability to keep blood sugar at steady levels, resulting in chronically elevated blood glucose2<\/sup>. In turn, this can result in chronic inflammation and accumulation of toxins, which can harm cells2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For eye health, the accumulation of toxins can damage cells in the eye responsible for maintaining eye health and visual acuity. As such, degeneration of eye cells can lead to a variety of age-related diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataracts and diabetic retinopathy2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, it\u2019s important to limit the amount of simple sugars in your diet from foods like white bread and pasta to help your body maintain blood sugar levels and reduce the amount of toxins that your eye cells are exposed to. Whole grain pastas and bread are great substitutes since they\u2019re digested more slowly and don\u2019t cause the same spikes in blood sugar2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Prepackaged foods<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prepackaged foods are loaded with sodium; eating too much processed food can have negative effects that reverberate throughout your body. It\u2019s estimated that in America, as much as 75 per cent of dietary sodium comes from prepackaged and processed foods like soup, tomato sauce and condiments3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Too much sodium in your diet is associated with high blood pressure, also known as hypertension3<\/sup>. Importantly, hypertension is linked to eye problems like diabetic retinopathy and blood vessel damage that can lead to vision loss1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eating less prepackaged food can reduce your chance of developing eye diseases like AMD or diabetic retinopathy1<\/sup>; however, if you do eat prepackaged foods, try to look for those with labels marked \u201clow sodium\u201d to help keep your sodium intake in check3,4<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n