The Sharper-view Menu
Start with a base of cooked spinach, kale, Swiss chard, or collard greens. Then add in veggies like asparagus, brussels sprouts, edamame, zucchini, peas, or corn, and top with a hard-boiled or fried egg. These foods are all rich in lutein and zeaxanthin, two nutrients (called carotenoids) that protect your eyes from the blue light given off by your computer screen—good thing, since most of us average 11 hours a day staring at one. “Blue light can damage the retina, and that exposure can lead to problems like eye strain, eye fatigue, and headaches,” says James Stringham, Ph.D., of the Nutritional Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Georgia. “Lutein and zeaxanthin are deposited in the center of your retina and absorb a lot of this blue light.”…
