How It works for Eye Carrots?

The presumption is in circulation about the carrot and no right eye health but also no harm. Can wotel help improve eyesight?

During these parents often sent their children to eat carrots because it can be trusted to make the eyes healthy.

Though carrots will not improve visual acuity a person who already has a less than perfect eyesight. But the vitamins are contained in carrots can help improve your overall eye health.

Vegetables carrots begin health-related eye since World War II. At the time it is told that the fighter pilot John Cunningham has a good vision of flying at night, after diligent eating carrots. Responding to this story, eventually many people who diligently eating carrots in order to have perfect eyesight.

As quoted from HowStuffWorks, Wednesday (06/02/2010) carrots contain beta-carotene compound, ie a substance which is converted by the body into vitamin A (one of the important nutrients for eye health).

Compounds of beta carotene is the carotenoid pigments found in vegetables and fruits that are orange. Beta carotene is an important precursor for the formation of vitamin A.

A person who is experiencing extreme vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness. Even in some developing countries, vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of blindness.

In addition vitamin A deficiency can also cause xerophthalmia, eye conditions can no longer produce tears, experiencing a drought in the eye, eyelid swelling and corneal disorders.

However, if the interference experienced eye is not caused by vitamin A deficiency, the condition of vision will not change even if someone ate carrots in large numbers.

Carrots are not the only vegetables that contain beta-carotene to support eye health, other foods such as sweet potatoes, mangoes, apricots and pumpkins are also a source of beta carotene. It also includes milk, cheese, egg yolk and liver.

Vegetables that contain antioxidants known as lutein. Containing foods rich in lutein may increase the density of pigment in the macula, the area is yellow oval shaped and located near the retina of the eye.

The greater density of pigment in the macula, the retina of the eye will be increasingly well protected and reduce the risk of macula degeneration.

So, if the experienced eye disorder caused by deficiency of vitamin A then eating carrots can help improve eye health.

But if not caused by impaired vitamin A, then the possibility of excessive consumption of carrots will not give effect. Still it never hurts to keep eating a carrot on a regular basis to meet the intake of vitamin A for body.