Caring for Eye Health

Healthy body and organs inside the body so needs to be maintained. From start to maintain eye health, skin health, hair health, dental care, nail care, and health in other parts of the entire body, both from within and from outside. Maintaining eye health is an important thing to be aware of. You should be able to take care of your eyes with good health. These will infodari eye health tips to be discussing about how to care for eye health and eye health to avoid all diseases and other eye disorders.

For those of you who use contact lens or contact lens, also needed extra care, so that your eyes remain healthy.

Actually there are 7 easy ways to keep your eyes healthy, in this article we provide a variety of tips to our visual senses both children and adults are not exposed to diseases such as minus, plus or cataracts. Why should we keep? Did you know according to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there are 45 million people with blindness on the planet and it wiliayah third in Southeast Asia, where we live. In Indonesia there are an estimated one person become blind every minute in the world and estimated 12 people become blind every minute.
There are 7 easy tips Eye Health Care can be done every person in maintaining eye health:

1. A Balanced Diet
Apparently the diet has something to do with eye health, so while doing the diet by eating nutritious foods with vegetables and fruits. Always choose foods that contain vitamin A, C, and E because it can improve the health of the human eye. Furthermore, eating salmon can also provide a very good effect.

2. Avoid Living Habits Poor
This method actually applies to maintaining the health of the entire body to avoid minumanng yes alcoholic and eliminate the habit of smoking. Scientists say, smoking can make eye cataracts, macular degeneration (loss of sharpness of vision), and nerve damage in the eye. And drinking too much alcohol can make pupillary reaction so unstable, blurred vision until the myopic eye.

3. Perform routine checks Eyes
Often modern humans do not realize that stress can impact due to a job that does not fit into the eye. Therefore, perisakanlah your eyes regularly to avoid the disease that may strike the eye.

4. Gymnastics Eyes
How do senamnya? easy really. Open wide your eyes. Then, rotate the eyeball up, down, left and right for two seconds and close your eyes slowly. Repeat a few times when you're relaxed. This can reduce the impact of stress eye because solar radiation or computer.

5. Knowing Eyes in the Family History
The possibility of eye diseases can arise due to hereditary factors. So instead of that, knowing the history of your own eyes in the family is very important. By knowing, as a child we can prevent eye diseases derived by consulting the doctor.

6. Protective Eye Wear
Glasses can be worn to protect the eyes from sunlight or dust during exercise or other activity. Many glasses are specially designed for specific sports to avoid eye injury. So, avoid the use of sunglasses just because you want to style.

7. Enough Rest
Just like the body, the eyes also need adequate rest. Refrain from watching TV too long, or long hours at the computer when not at work. That way, your eyes do not fatigue and get adequate rest. (Read Causes and How to Overcome Difficult Sleep Tonight)

8. Do not rub or rubbed his eyes are too strong, especially when there is a foreign object into the eye.

9. Do not touch eyes with dirty hands or not washed with soap.

10. Apply the habit of watching TV and reading the right, such as the ideal distance of 2.5 - 3 meters in front of the TV, watching the dark space When the lights turned on, try living in a state of light, after watching TV for 30 - 60 minutes, rest for a moment close your eyes or look away. Also apply the correct reading habits, such as: Reading should be sitting in a relaxed position, the light source should be from the back or side, not from the front, the eye spacing Set approximately 30-40 cm reading, do not read continuously, occasionally rest eyes with close them or look away for a moment.
That's a variety of tips that we can use in maintaining eye health so we are not exposed to diseases such as minus, plus or cataracts.

For women, if you have eyes minus will berpengaruhpada pregnant. Therefore, do your best to take care of your eye health, so that your eyes can still function properly and as it should be

Food Sources and Benefits of Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a vitamin that is essential for our body. Alpha-tocopherols as one part of the eight types of vitamin E tocopherols are the most abundant in the body and the most easily absorbed and processed by our body tissues.
Supplements of vitamin E can be natural or synthetic form, but cuplemen natural form of vitamin E that has efficacy of 50 percent more than a synthesis.
Such benefits include reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease, increase your metabolism and immune system, prevent cataracts and increase vitality and stamina.
Eight types of Tocopherol were merged into one called the Vitamin E. This vitamin is known as soluble in fatty tissues and has antioxidant properties as well.
Vitamin E was first discovered in 1992 in experiments with rats as test subjects.

Lack of Vitamin E
Symptoms of deficiency of vitamin E in the body is very difficult to know, and often a debate on a number of research. Most research assumes a deficiency of vitamin E will result in digestive disorders in which all nutrients will be easily absorbed by the digestive tract. This will cause a disruption in pancreatic, biliary, liver and celiac.
Vitamin E deficiency causes infertility in mice in the experiment. Although no specific research that says that regular consumption of vitamin E may increase fertility, but there are some people who believe that this vitamin can increase their levels of fertility and sexuality.
Some other research says that symptoms of vitamin E deficiency is called peripheral neuropathy. The symptoms of peripheral neuropathy is a disorder of the nervous system in the hands and feet accompanied by tingling and pain. While many health professionals say a deficiency of vitamin E will cause skin irritation, but not a lot of research that agrees to that.

Food Sources of Vitamin E
In order to maintain the levels of vitamin E we have lots of foods that contain the vitamin. Foods that contain lots of vitamin E are spinach, turnip greens, beets, mustard greens, red pepper, sunflower seeds, asparagus, kale, tomatoes, cranberries, broccoli, brussel sprouts, papaya, raspberries and carrots.
Each of these foods are rich in vitamin E and is recommended lo consume regularly.

Key Benefits of Vitamin E

Here are some of the benefits of vitamin E:

Cancer and cardiovascular disorders
This vitamin is fat-soluble and can be very beneficial to the stability of the cell membrane. The antioxidants in vitamin E are very useful to protect our tissues from free radicals that are dangerous.
Free radicals are waste products of the production of our body's metabolic processes. Free radicals are very dangerous because they can damage our cells and tissues directly enrich the growth of cancer in our bodies as well as other cardiovascular disorders.
Vitamin E has the ability to limit the production of free radicals, thus indirectly vitamins can prevent cancer and other dangerous diseases.

Increase metabolism and the immune system
Vitamin E has an important role in improving the quality of the immune system in our body. This vitamin helps the function of DNA repair and also increase metabolism.
Adequate intake of vitamin E can prevent the development of nitrosamines in the body. Nitrosamines are carcinogenic compounds formed in the stomach of nitrate compounds derived from a number of foods that we eat every day.
Vitamin E also helps protect some of the sensitive tissues of the body such as the skin, liver, eyes, breasts and testicles.

Cambridge English TV

Some of you are preparing the PET, the  First Certificate, the Advance or the Proficiency Tests of Cambridge University. These series of videos can help you to achieve your aims.
As they say:" Welcome to Cambridge English TV, where you will find useful tips and information about teaching, learning and researching the English language. Around 4 million people choose to take University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations every year in 130 countries"

Click here to go to Cambridge English TV

Twominuteenglish

 At the airport, taking a taxi, ordering a pizza, greeting people or saying goodbye, you can listen, practice and learn English with these videos about daily activities.
As they say:" Welcome to twominuteenglish.com Teaching you English in two minutes or less"
15 videos and growing
Click here to go to twominuteenglish.com

Tools for teachers

The British Council and the BBC offer this place for teachers.As they say: " This is the place to come for tools to help you inside and outside the classroom - from software to help you prepare classes to a glossary of ELT terms."
Click here to go to Tools for teachers.

Project Britain

British Life, Symbols, Culture, Events, Customs and traditions, Education, History, Tourist information, hundreds of facts and figures, etc......
As Mandy Barrow, the webmaster and author says: " Our Project Britain website contains fascinating facts and information about England, Scotland and Wales (Britain), in a way that is easy to read and to understand for people of all ages and cultures.
Click here to go to Project Britain.

Tiching- The global educational network

A great site, dedicated to learning and totally free for teachers, students and families.

Their slogan is :"Where the learning community meets"

As they say :" Tiching gives you access to 80.158 learning contents via its search engine. If you sign up, you can also enjoy lots of other opportunities: meeting new people, comment on contents, get recommendations..."
 It is also available in Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician.
 Click here to go to Tiching

LEARN ENGLISH WHILE HELPING THE WORLD

Let's learn English watching a film while helping the International Justice  to catch one of the world's worst war criminals. Joseph Kony
Help Invisible Children's campaign to show who is  Joseph kony and what's he doing in Central Africa for more than 20 years. Help them to support the international effort to arrest him, disarm the LRA and bring the child soldiers  home

Click on the logo to watch the film and, by the way, you could sign the pledge, be sure you'll feel better.

Adult learning activities

This website is part of the California Distance Learning Project and the project has been sponsored by  the California Department of Education.
As they say:
"The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults" And I would add that some of them are also interesting for young learners . There is a section for teachers and adult educators too.


It has lots of listening and reading comprehension activities, matching and spelling exercises,  and a section I specially like, " What did you learn?" where you can check your understanding of what you have read.  The stories are based on real life situations and the original TV news story is included for some of them in video.


It's very easy to use and a great help for both, adults and teenagers, who want to learn English.


Click here to go to the site Adult Learning Activities

Word on the street

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/word-street

The BBC and the British Council have co-produced this new English Language teaching programme.
10 episodes filmed in different places in the United Kingdom

As they say:
"Word on the Street looks at how English works in everyday life and presents lively aspects of young British culture. Each half hour episode is filmed in a different place in the UK and features drama, interviews and reports to help you improve your English language skills".

Click here to go to Word on the street

Resources for English as a Second Language

 

As they say : "UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse the grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas"
Click here to go to "Using English.com".