Why green leafy vegetables good for your eyes?
vegetables and roots are rich in nitrate, a compound found naturally in fruits. People who consumed green leafy vegetables and roots had 20 percent to 30 percent lowered risk for primary open-angle glaucoma compared to those who ate less of these.
Adding more green leafy vegetables and roots such as kale, lettuce, spinach, beets and carrots to your diet could be good for your eyes, a study suggests.
These vegetables and roots are rich in nitrate, a compound found naturally in fruits. People who consumed green leafy vegetables and roots had 20 percent to 30 percent lowered risk for primary open-angle glaucoma compared to those who ate less of these foods.
Primary open-angle glaucoma is a most common type of glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that ultimately causes blindness.
Jae Kang and other researchers of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have based their findings after studying the diet and eye exam results of about 64,000 women and 41,000 men from 1984 to 2012.
The participants, all over 40 years of age, were not having glaucoma prior to the research.
The researchers however pointed out that more research is required to determine the relationship between nitrate-rich diet and glaucoma.
The study has appeared in JAMA Opthalmology.
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