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Hows Your Sight Seeing? Help keep your eyes and vision healthy with these top tips Eat Well Nutrients found in many fruit and vegetables and fatty acids derived from fish, nuts and oils may help protect your sight Quit Smoking

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How’s Your Sight Seeing?

Help keep your eyes and vision healthy with these top tips

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Eat Well

Nutrients found in many fruit and vegetables and fatty acids derived from fish, nuts and oils may help protect your sight

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Quit Smoking

Smokers are up to four times more likely to develop macular degeneration – the UK’s leading cause of sight loss – than non-smokers

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Cover Up!

Cumulative exposure to the sun’s UV light increases your risk of developing cataracts and macular degeneration

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Be Screen Smart

Avoid eye strain following the 20-20-20 rule: Look 20 feet in front of you every 20 minutes for 20 seconds

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Watch Your Weight

Damage to blood vessels in the eye caused by excess body weight has been linked to the

  • nset of glaucoma
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Get Tested

Get your eyes checked every two years even if you think your vision is perfect Early detection is vital to prevent avoidable sight loss

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Want to Know More?

For more advice and information about looking after your eyes ask at your local

  • ptical practice or visit

www.visionmatters.org.uk