﻿Now you all know as an optometrists,
we're constantly recommending that people eat healthy for their eyes.
Now for the average person,
that's easier said than done.
That's why back in 2015, I started recommending recipe books
for my patients just to make it a little bit easier for them to be able to get
healthy, nutritious recipes for them and their families.
So with my go to book now seemingly unavailable,
I had to go back to the drawing board and discover something else that I could use.
That's why in this video, I'm going to be reviewing the new go
to book that I now refer my patients to for healthy, nutritious, eye care recipes.
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So the book we'll be going to be looking
at today is called Eat Right For Your Sight. In this video am going to be taking
a closer look at what this book is all about.
And we're looking at who the book is intended for, as well as the delving
into a bit more about how easy it is to use and look at the content in the book.
And then let me give you my final thoughts and a conclusion on this product.
So this book is pretty unique in the fact that it is really dedicated to recipes
that are all about promoting a healthy macular and therefore healthy site.
Now, the macular is a critical part
of the retina, is the part that gives you all the detailed vision that we need
to see faces and see detail across the road, for example.
And the leading cause of blindness
in Western nations is a condition called Age-Related Macular Degeneration, or AMD.
So signs
and there is good science to suggest that we
can influence the outcomes when it comes to
delaying in the rate of deterioration and the progression of age related macular
degeneration by eating good nutrition and good food that promotes healthy macular.
So this book positions itself really as
a book that is all about recipes that are rich in the necessary nutrients
and vitamins and antioxidants that, you know, science has shown to
promote this health of the macular and the macular region.
Feel free to check out my video in the corner over here.
I just for more details on what exactly macular degeneration is.
Now, the authors of the book are
Jennifer Thomson and Johanna Seddon, M.D., who's also macular specialist.
They seem to have created this book
in collaboration with and also with the cooperation of the American
Macular Degeneration Foundation, which is an organization,
a charitable organization, I believe, designed to educate and help people
with resources, you know, who may be living through macular
degeneration or they may be concerned about macular degeneration.
So I'll leave a link to their website in the description box as well.
And just to have a look at some
of the resources that they've got available on their site now on their
website, the aim of this book is also quite clearly summarized.
So I'll read an extract of that.
So the easy part of eating healthy is
learning which kinds of foods are best foods like salmon, egg, corn, blueberries,
peppers, leafy green vegetables, have parts in funding for varied and delicious
ways to make them a regular part of your diet.
Eat Right For Your Sights takes care of that,
providing recipes that makes eating healthy a treat.
So with that said, who should be buying this book?
Very. We should all be eating healthy for our
eyes and therefore this book really should have appeal to everybody.
But in reality, if you are somebody who is in the higher risk category for macular
degeneration, so if you are over 60 or if you have a family history of it and you
are concerned, then really you should be taking extra
precautions and really making sure that every meal that you consume
is ideally promoting a healthy vision and healthy macular.
So this book would be ideal for that type of individual.
And have a look now at what exactly is in this book, what the content is like,
and how easy it is to make use of a book like this.
Now, compared to previous book that I had
back in 2015, and I recommend it to numerous patients over the years.
This book is, I'd say, a lot more down to earth in terms of the ingredients used,
you know, generally the recipes will tend to be a lot more, you know,
hearty down to earth foods and meals that will appeal to a wide range of people.
Common complaint that.
The other book tended to have was that some of the recipes
of the ingredients, rather, were not necessarily widely available
in your average supermarket or your local store.
So I think the recipes here have a broad, wide appeal from that point of view.
The book also packs about 88 different
recipes that I think are very well organized.
When we look at the index of the book,
the organized into the following categories, so we have a small bites,
soups, salads, main courses, your side dishes,
you desserts and then your healthy drinks as well.
So I think that's a good broad set of categories there that cover every kind
of meal, really, that you might envisage an average family having.
And each category has a good number of recipes as well.
So you can potentially really make up a family food time table that will provide
variation over several weeks without people feeling like they're
repetitively eating the same meals over and over again.
Now, this book provides some great information about the daily nutrition
that we all need to take into account of in order to maintain a healthy macular.
And as well as that,
it does give us the recommended kind of nutrients and vitamins,
as well as the daily recommended allowance of each of these.
And that's super helpful when you compare that as well with the nutritional profile
that they provide for every recipe in the book.
So the nutritional profile of every recipe really just gives you a breakdown
of the vitamins and the nutrients in there and also the estimated amounts
of that nutrient that you're going to get in that meal.
So you can kind of use that to tally up
whether, you know, you're getting your daily recommended allowance in each meal.
And if you're somebody who takes supplements as well,
such as macular health supplements, then you can figure out whether, you know,
between that and the meals that you're eating, whether you are
exceeding your daily recommended allowance of any of the essential kind of nutrients.
And I think that's where this book has
the upper hand, really compared to some of the other books that you may well find
in the market or the previous book that I have been recommending since 2015.
So we see the great care that's been taken to make sure that we got a great variety
of meals and recipes that allow you to mix and match and make
sure that you're hitting all of the essential nutrients and the vitamins,
antioxidants that are all essential to,
you know, the aim of this book, which is to make sure your macular is healthy.
Now, the other great thing about
the recipes in this book is that nothing seems to really need heavy cooking.
And that's great,
because when we're talking about extracting as much nutrition
from the food, we want to make sure that
we prepare it in a way that the nutritional value of the food is
preserved and not removed or stripped out by cooking it too much.
So what's not to love about this book?
Well, there isn't too much, actually.
But what I will point out about is if you
are someone who is a meat lover and you must eat meat and every meal, then,
you know, many of the recipes in this book don't involve meat.
But there is a good selection.
And you'll also be glad to know that at the beginning of the book has
a section titled What to Have in Your Pantry, What to Keep in Your Pantry.
And it gives you a list of different things just to keep, just in case
and things that I guess you can use to supplement your meals.
And in that list is about 12 different lean meats.
So there's certainly not advocating that you remove all meat from your diet.
So there's a good selection there,
but it's important that it's lean meat as well.
Now, having said that, a low meat diet is probably advisory when
it comes to eating healthy for your side anyway.
So that's not to say you can't have meat, but keeping it as you know,
something that you have occasionally is probably the sensible way to go and also
make sure that meat is, you know, lean and quality meat as well.
So that's kind of really as much as I say about that.
And that's probably about the extent
of what I could say that may be negative about this book.
So as far as the conclusion goes, this really is a book that I think is
a fantastic book and it's a resource that I now do recommend to my patients
when it comes to suggesting recipes and giving them kind of meals that they should
be consuming on a regular basis in order to maintain healthy vision and sight.
It certainly checks all the boxes in terms
of the the book itself being a convenient and easy to use being, you know,
you can kind of reference come back to over and over again.
It's also handy size.
It's convenient for the kitchen
that covers hard wearing, enough that if you're using it sensibly,
it should last you many years of good regular daily use.
So it is a good book.
And I'm going to leave a link in the description box of where you can
pick the book up from and you can feel free to check it out,
as well as the website for the people involved in creating this book as well.
So let me know in the comments section below.
Do you currently eat healthy for your eyes?
Is it something that you're more likely to do now because of this book?
And are you going to pick this book up as well?
Let me know in the comments section below. Thank you for watching.
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