Importance of maintaining your eye health

Nutrition plays a vital role in maintaining good eye health. Consuming the right diet can help prevent and manage various eye diseases. Experts believe the time to focus on your vision health is now. With people glued to screens more often than before, it has become a necessity. About 25 per cent of the Indian population has weakened eyesight mainly because of too much screen time.
Our eyes work constantly and use up a lot of energy. Adding increased screen time to this makes them susceptible to oxidative stress. Experts suggest that this is where carotenoids called lutein and zeaxanthin become important in maintaining eye health..
Puneet Sood, Country Manager, Blackmores told HT Lifestyle, “However, it is also true that in today’s fast-paced life, lack of proper nutrition is a concern for many and therefore, leads to lifestyle diseases which include weaker eye health. Quality nutrition through diet and supplements is therefore key to better eye health. Another important thing to note here is that the body cannot make lutein on its own and must be obtained through food or supplementation. After all, it works as your personal pair of internal sunglasses and offers protection against the blue light emanating from screens. This is where a supplement like the blue light defence becomes essential.”
Talking about blue light defence support for eye health, Puneet explained, "Blue light defence supports healthy eye function through its scientifically formulated antioxidant formula. The antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin in it promote eye retina and macula health and protect the eyes against excessive exposure to devices and the sun. Blue light defence comes handy as we hardly get enough lutein and zeaxanthin from our diet to be deposited into the eye, specifically into the macular, where they support and maintain eye health because of their ability to filter blue light. They also help to reduce the damage caused by free radicals, which are harmful molecules produced during normal bodily metabolic functions or exposure to pollutants and cigarette smoke. It is a convenient one-a-day dose to support and maintain healthy eye function for modern living.”