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Brewing coffee is a morning routine for millions of people and research has shown that drinking coffee comes with a number of health benefits. Coffee is associated with reduced risks of Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes and liver disease. Studies have shown that green tea could help improve your vision healthy but could your morning cup of coffee also protect your eyes? A new study has found a link that supports that theory.
The study from Cornell University was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and found that one of the main ingredients in coffee may protect against blindness and eyesight deterioration that comes with age. In the study mice were treated with nitric acid which leads to retinal degeneration. However, some mice were pretreated with chlorogenic acid or CLA, one of the main ingredients in raw coffee. The study found that the mice that had been treated with CLA did not exhibit retinal damage. Scientists think that this is significant because it could lead to synthetic compound for human use.
This study suggests we may need to add coffee to the list of foods that are good for your vision but where does it fit in with the rest of your diet? What foods should you be eating to help maintain healthy eyes?
Diet and Healthy Eyesight
While it seems that the benefits of coffee could extend your eyesight, there are other dietary steps that you can take to keep your eyes healthy. Studies have shown that nutrients like Omega-3 fatty acids, lutein, zinc and vitamin C and E may help to ward off age related eye problems. Eating a balanced diet is also important because it greatly reduces the risk of type II diabetes and diabetes is the leading cuase of blindness in adults.
Some foods that help promote eye health include:
Our bodies depend on what we put into them and a healthy balanced diet is one of the best ways to not only protect your vision but your overall health as well. If coffee does have the vision health benefits that this study suggests, your morning routine may already be doing you more good than you know.
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For most people 2020 was a terrible year, nothing but Covid and lockdowns, for me it was the year I got my eyesight back. I've been wearing reading glasses since I was 7 years old. The optic nerve in my right eye never really developed so I had to rely on my left eye to provide me with adequate sight, with a prescription in my right eye to help balance it. This continued right through my childhood, adolescence, then through adulthood until my 40's. At that stage, my left eye had also began to fail, so, "call it vanity", I decided to opt for laser surgery. This unfortunately only lead to further complications and so was back to wearing glasses, 18 months after the treatment, with an eye prescription worse than ever. I knew by my early 50's my eyesight was in a serious state. Even with glasses everything was a blur and going in the wrong direction. I decided to seek further help, so for 3 years I visited eye specialists in Cork and Dublin hoping for a solution. Nobody wanted to know me after my failed eye operations and poor sight, except one man, MR Behrooz Golchin, a man I credit for saving my eyesight. Within 3 months I got synthetic lenses for both eyes. 12 months later I am still in disbelief of what he was able to do to correct my eyesight. Thank you Mr Golchin
John Lynch (March 2021)