Regular consumption of leafy green vegetables can help reduce the risk of eye disease.

Original title: Regular consumption of green leafy vegetables can help reduce the risk of eye disease
A 15-year Australian study shows that eating nitrate-rich green leafy vegetables every day can help reduce the risk of macular degeneration in old age.
Old age macular degeneration is a common age-related eye disease, early symptoms are vision loss, late stage is manifested as dark spots in the center of vision, blurred vision, severe blindness, is one of the main causes of irreversible vision impairment in the elderly population.
in a new paper published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, researchers at the Westmead Institute of Medicine in Australia say they followed 2000 Australians over the age of 49 for 15 years and combined it with a large amount of data from previous studies that found that people who consumed 100 to 142 milligrams of vegetable nitrates a day had a 35 percent lower risk of macular degeneration than those who ate less than 69 milligrams.
, who led the study, said eating nitrate-rich green leafy vegetables may be an easy way to reduce the risk of macular degeneration, but the findings need to be further tested.
nitrate-rich vegetables include spinach and lettuce, which contain about 20 milligrams of nitrate per 100 grams.
researchers also noted that they found no additional benefits from eating more than 142 milligrams of vegetable nitrates, and the study did not show a link between ingestion of non-vegetable nitrates and a reduced risk of macular degeneration. (Wang Yu-joo)