As the saying goes, “eyes are the windows of our hearts”. The most important human organism on the face is the eyes. Bright and clear eyes can make people feel you are lively and active. Because of the complexity and important of the eyes, we should take measures to protect our eyes.
In our daily life, according to the kind of people’s work, we can divide the use of the eyes into different parts.
Pay attention to the nutrition we take can help us protect the eyes.
Vitamin A has a big contact with our eyesight. When lacking of vitamin A seriously, you will have night blindness. Much food contains vitamin A. For example, animals’ livers, fish oil, eggs, carrots, pumpkin and so on.
Vitamin C can protect the eyes from the harm of oxygen. Fresh vegetable and fruit like tomatoes, lemons, and kiwi fruits have a large amount of vitamin C.
Eyes are made from calcium and other elements. Lacking of calcium can cause short sightedness. The need of calcium increases when we grow up. And much food like milk and sea food have a large amount of calcium.
Many good habits are helpful for the protective of the eyes. We should keep the eyes have a distance of 0.33m with the book when reading. Don’t reading when walking and lying on the bed and taking a bus. About one hour after reading we should take other activities to relax our eyes. At this time, we can look objects far away from us. And we can look at the green foliages or just close our eyes for a while.
Don’t smoke. Tobacco contains substances which do harm to vitamin A and vitamin B1. They have a bad effect on our eyesight. Don’t stare at sun for a long time. When taking part in outside activities, we should wear sunglasses.
Don’t drink too much water before you go to bed.
If we don’t take good measures to protect our eyes for a long time, we may feel uncomfortable. Sometimes we should wear glasses to make sure that we can see objects far away form us clearly. If things go worse, we should go to the hospitals.
In a word, eyes are important. Being aware of the knowledge of protecting eyes, we can live better.