Three fruit a day Keep your eye doctor

consume fruits can make your eyes protected from some diseases. Feedback is presented by Dr. Eunyoung Cho from `the Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston` (U.S.), after studying over 118,000 people aged 12 to 18 years.

During the study the research team noted how much the consumption of fruits each day and the results of a study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology. Maculopathy or macular degeneration is a cause of blindness in seniors over the age of 65 years. Lack of fruits can be a suspected lack of sensitivity on the ray which is called the retina.

Previous research indicates that vitamin Antioxidant and containing a number of mineral supplements that contain vitamin C and E, beta carotene and zinc compound capable of a slow process that Maculopathy.

This research conducted by the Brigham and Women Hospital is focusing on how much fruit, vegetables or vitamain consumed to reduce the risk of disease occurred this Maculopathy. Volunteers consist of 77.562 women joined in the Nurses' Health Study and 40.866 men.

All volunteers that have been aged at least 50 years old when the study is done and when the study started early participants who have not experienced this disease is possible. Women volunteers will continue to be monitored for 18 years while for prianya for 12 years.

To the women are required to complete a questionnaire and the diet they do in the period 1980, 1984, 1986, 1990 and 1994. Meanwhile, for men must be a period of three times each in 1986, 1990, and 1994. To all the volunteers are also required to report the type of vitamin or supplement that is consumed every two years.

After running a study about 329 women and 135 men terdiagnosa experiencing early symptoms of the disease and 217 women and 99 men ascertained the neovascular, another type of eye disease conditions.

By consuming three or more fruits each day was able to significantly reduce the risk of disease affected neovascula. Meanwhile, do not consume vegetables results show that benefit.

Bananas and oranges have been used as the fruit that has a big advantage to protect the eyes from this disease. However the level Antioxidant vitamins such as the color of fruits or vegetables red, yellow or orange does not have a direct relation with the risk of this disease.