The Importance of Nutrition

In order for our body to work efficiently it is important to put the correct ‘fuel’ into the body in terms of food and drink. It sounds like a cliché though you want ‘food to be fuel’ rather than ‘food to be a filler’.

You want to eat the food and drink the fluids that are going to make your body work more efficiently rather than just make you feel full.

It is not appropriate for an optometrist to give dietary advice beyond the importance of taking supplements such as vitamin D or vitamin D in combination with vitamin K to compensate the reduced sunlight levels we get in this part of the world, eat green leafy vegetables to provide the nutrients that keep your eyes functioning well and take Omega 3 fish oil or flaxseed oil supplements to help provide the oil that makes your tears work better.

Omega 3 fish oil or flaxseed oil supplements are beneficial given our limited ability to be able to regularly eat fresh oily fish daily compared to people in Mediterranean countries.

Be aware that the quality of fish oil supplements varies so ensure that you buy one of good quality.

Getting nutritional advice is always a good idea so consider contacting nutritionists Jules Cattell and Alessandro Ferretti at www.equilibria-health.co.uk (email: info@equilibria-health.co.uk (ph 0845 620 9718) or Lucy Upton at www.integratedtherapysolutions.co.uk