Consume more fruits because it can make your eyes are protected from some diseases and therefore its good for the eye health.The suggestion made by Dr. Eunyoung Cho from `the Brigham and Women’s Hospital` Boston (USA) after a study of 118,000 people aged 12 to 18 years.

During the study the research team noted how much the consumption of fruit each day and the results of a study published in the Archives of Ophthalmology,Maculopathy or macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly over the age of 65 years.Lack of fruit, which is bad for the eye health, can be adeficiency is suspected sensitivity to the sun, called the retina.

Previous research shows that antioxidant vitamins that contain minerals and supplements that contain vitamin C and E, beta carotene and zinc compounds to slow the process that Maculopathy and is a key factor for the eye health.

This times the research conducted by the Brigham and Women Hospital focusing on how much fruit, vegetables or vitamin consumed to reduce the eye health risk of this happening Maculopathy disease.Volunteers consist of 77.562 women who joined in the Nurses’ Health Study and 40.866 men.

All the volunteers for this eye health test were at least 50 years old when the study conducted and when the initial study began there was no indication of participants who experienced this disease.Volunteers women will continue to be monitored for 18 years while for men over 12 years.

To the women were asked to answer and complete a questionnaire about their diets did in the period 1980, 1984, 1986, 1990 and 1994.To all the volunteers were also asked to report the types of vitamins or supplements are consumed every two years.

After the study walked around 135 women and 329 men diagnosed with early symptoms of having this disease and 217 women and 99 men experienced certain neovascular, other types of eye health disease conditions.

By consuming three or more fruits each day was able to significantly reduce the eye health risk of disease neovascula.While vegetable consumption did not show favorable results.

Bananas and oranges cited as the fruit that has a big advantage to protect the eye health.Yet the level of antioxidant vitamins such as the color of fruits or vegetables red, yellow or orange does not have a direct link with the risk of this eye health disease.