Lack of Trace Elements Causes Myopia
According to a recent survey, apart from the congenital inheritance, the acquired load of close vision, and the social and environmental factors, the occurrence of myopia is also related to the lack of trace elements in your body, such as the lack of calcium and zinc. The related statistics show that, diets containing high amount of sugar and protein would promote the happening and development of myopia. The main reason for that: as we all know, the metabolism of sugar in the body requires a large amount of vitamin B. If you take in too much sugar, much more vitamin B is consumed, so that it will affect the metabolism of calcium, which will reduce the contents of the collagen in the sclera organization and the flexibility of the eyeball wall. Day by day, the axis oculi extents and it will result in myopia.
In addition to that, calcium is one of the most active elements in the body. It plays an important role in the physiological processes such as the neuromuscular stress and the nerve impulse conduction. Therefore, the trace elements are also able to keep the normal physiology of the eye muscle and the firmness and flexibility of the sclera. Without the trace elements, it is easy to lead to eye tiredness and develop into myopia. Eye experts specialized in the prevention of eye diseases has done an investment. They tested about 5830 children who have the problem of errors of refraction. From the children’s hair, eye experts got the information about the contents of many related trace elements and found most of children who suffered from myopia lack in calcium and zinc in different degrees. The most serious short trace element is calcium; therefore, lack of calcium is regarded as one of the particular factors inducing myopia.
In order to better prevent myopia or its worsening, eye experts suggest everyone that it is necessary to supply suitable amount of calcium, zinc and other trace elements through daily diets. There are a lot of foods containing calcium, such as fishes, shrimp, crab, spinach, bone, soybean, nuts, peanut, and seaweed. Foods rich in zinc: fishes, oyster, lean pork, beef, mutton, eggs, coco, milk products, peanut, soybean, nuts, and coarse flour. However, the supply of trace elements should go on based on the doctors’ advice. Do not supply them blindly, or it will have side effects.
Moreover, another way of preventing the worsening of myopia should be to buy a pair of eyeglasses as soon as possible, the eye experts also suggest. Since online shopping has become a fashion, maybe it is a good idea to buy eyeglasses online as well. As matter of fact, this idea occurred to me several days ago, and did it. I have brought several pairs of prescription glasses from glassesshop.com. Nice try! Let’s protect our eyes from now on.
