Is Your Eyesight Getting Better with Age?

I got my eyes examined yesterday and the optometrist told me that my vision had improved. I was thrilled. Most people’s vision gets worse with age, but mine has gotten better. When she said, “keep eating carrots” I almost fell out of the chair. She had no way of knowing I am writing a cookbook and that my entire philosophy is a common sense approach to cooking and eating that boils down to eating Real Food Real Flavor Real Easy®.

She said that the best foods you can eat, to keep your eyes healthy, are the colorful ones such as dark green leafy vegetables like kale, carrots, all colors of bell peppers, winter squash etc. If you eat a wide variety of colorful vegetables, and eat them as close to their natural state as possible, you will be getting all of the nutrients you need. Eat real foods, ones that do not come with a label. If it has a label, it has been processed in some way. Enzymes, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and micronutrient are lost when foods are processed. When you cook your colorful vegetables, do not use water. Cook them in a bit of oil, covered, put them in the microwave with a tablespoon of water, or roast them in the oven.

It was fun to have the doctor confirm what common sense says. There is no guarantee that your eyesight will improve if you eat colorful, flavorful, real foods, but why not put the odds in your favor? Chances are if your eyesight does not improve, another body part will.

Cooking is easier than you think and you are worth the time and effort it takes.

Simple cooking idea: To save clean up, put aluminum foil on the burners you are not using. Grease will splatter on the foil and not on the stove.