Sedentary Lifestyle

As a reminder once more, what is healthy for your body is also healthy for your eyes. Making sure that you exercise your body regularly can help reduce the risk of having age-related macular degeneration as well as glaucoma, cataracts, and even diabetic eye diseases. Plus, exercising can help to provide your body with health benefits as well as longevity. 

It also helps provide you with better habits as well- from waking up earlier to sleeping earlier during the nights as well as having that eager feeling of wanting to take the stairs instead of an elevator to even parking farther away from work or your local supermarket. 

Lastly, and this is with those who struggle with diabetes, if they exercise regularly, they are able to show less development of diabetic retinopathy in their eyes. The recommended amount of time to exercise for those that are diabetic is roughly 150 minutes per week.

Scheduling Your Regular Comprehensive Eye Exam

To best avoid those vision-threatening diseases, it should be apparent that you go consult and visit your local eye doctor for your regular eye examination. This helps to detect the symptoms and the signs early on and prevent them from developing further. 

It is best to not wait until it is too late or if your vision starts to worsen or lose overtime than to prevent them at that moment in time. For many people, they have never known they had an eye disease until they visited their local eye doctor and had their usual comprehensive eye exam. It helps to detect any noticeable changes, both minor and major, and indicate the problems. 

In the end, having that sense of awareness and doing the right actions toward prevention and promoting a healthy lifestyle is key to having a huge impact on your eyes and overall health. It ensures that the risks of developing any disease of the sort, eye, or not, is reduced and that you can continue living both happy and healthy.

Dr. Joseph Cohen O.D.
Woodland Hills Optometrist
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(818) 345-3937
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19737 Ventura Blvd., Suite 201, Woodland Hills, CA 91364