Can Spinach Save Your Eyesight?

re: Can Spinach Save Your Eyesight?

mauro2009 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:52:45 GMT

Be careful with TOO MUCH spinach:

* The oxalic acid contained in spinach can react with the calcium contained in milk to produce an icky scum on your teeth. You may wish to avoid serving milk with spinach.

* The oxalic acid contained in spinach can be harmful. About 10 pounds of spinach is fatal.

* The oxalic acid contained in spinach is bad for cast iron pans and carbon steel pans. Spinach will turn black when cooked in such pans.

* The oxalic acid contained in spinach can prevent your body from absorbing iron and calcium and you will become anemic.

* To improve iron absorption, spinach should be eaten with foods that contain vitamin C.

* The oxalic acid in spinach will develop gout,kidney and gall stones.

o Because of the problem with anaemia and stone production, and the fact that the iron in spinach is bound to it by its oxalic acid which also neutralizes the iron in other foods that are eaten at the same time, Dr. Flora 3rd does not recommend eating spinach at all.One of the main reasons that it is available is that it has a long shelf life, like many other foods that will kill us.

re: Can Spinach Save Your Eyesight?

Freedom — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:22:27 GMT

Has anyone any information and/or experience on the Drug.....Avastin.....used for myopic de-generation. This drug in injected into the eye in three doses apparently over a period of several weeks to prevent further damage of the retina.

Also.....has anyone any information about any treatment for Myopic de-generation.

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Global Eco — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:59:13 GMT

Sight. Eating leafy green vegetables twice a day improves the eyes. They feed the liver and the liver controls the eyes.

harry

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Jean Schnetzler — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:26:40 GMT

Aloha. Although raw eggs are touted as super beneficial by the Mercola web-site, should we at all be concerned about salmonella ? I would appreciate any feedback based on scientific research. Mahalo

Jean

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Deana Smiel — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:15:35 GMT

I have a Vita-Mix and make a smoothie most mornings with probably 3 cups of fresh organic baby spinach along with lots of other good for you stuff. I'll be adding two eggs to this mixture now!

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skip smyth — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:39:51 GMT

Spinach, schminach. Want to know 'Clark Kent's" diet.

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Floater Pete — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:47:10 GMT

Good info, thanks

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chubby — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:43:49 GMT

HOW TO EAT RAW EGGS ? ---- simple --- in a smoothie --- perhaps with some KEFIR --- and some fresh fruit tossed in for flavor ----- DELICIOUS ! ---- but take the time and effort tro find good quality local RANGE FREE EGGS --- they are worth the effort ---- chubby

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TheDetoxBox_com — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:11:31 GMT

Regarding Popeye's missing eye - it depends what angle you catch him at. Sometimes his right eye is missing and sometimes his left.

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moo_203 — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:58:43 GMT

i do eat raw baby spinach in my salads. but i have my egg over easy with the yolk still runny as i can't stand the whole egg raw. does anyone know if over easy is too cooked for any benefit?

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bpfsa — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:10:59 GMT

Spinach truly is a wonderful vegetable, full of healthy properties. There's a website at

http://www.spinachwords.com

that shows how spinach is a multi-vitamin, multi-mineral, multi-amino, multi-phytonutrient powerhouse.

There's alot more to spinach than just lutein and zexanthin and it is beneficial for much more than just your vision. It is great for your heart, for cancer prevention, for maternal & fetal health & development, it boosts your natural SPF levels in your skin, it wards of memory loss, dementia and other signs of ageing, and it is good for strong bones, too.

Popeye was right - except maybe about eating a highly processed, canned product instead of fresh spinach.

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MarkEllins — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:26:11 GMT

Caucasian billberry is very effective on improving visual acuity and night vision, it was used by British fighter and bomber pilots in WWII for that purpose and has centuries of historic use.

I recommend a supplement that has the extracted active ingredients of caucasian billberry and most people get great results in a short period of time (2 to 8 weeks).

Part of the benefit comes from the powerful functional anti-oxidants and more from the many ways it promotes the entire health of the eye including the micro blood vessels in the retina.

As with many herbals, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get enough of the active ingredients to do the job from extracts of the herbs or teas. Properly extracted active ingredients yield the full power of the plant's chemicals and when they are extracted as a full spectrum active ingredient they can yield excellent results.

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dbroadwa — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:37:57 GMT

Sorry, that should have read 'dried red berries'. I'm non violent, really.

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dbroadwa — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:25:03 GMT

I had a case of macular degeneration 7 years ago. For about three months I couldn't make out any features on a person's face from across a room with my right eye. My eye doc told me there was no cure. I contacted a person who worked at a holistic health college and she told me it sounded like I was dangerously deficient in zinc and selenium. She also sent me a chinese herbal formula called Celosia 10, some died red berries and told me to pick up bilberry supplement. I started taking these five supplements and in a week to ten days my eyesight was back to normal. On the next visit to the eye doc he was reading my file as he came in and asked if there were any changes since my last visit. I said 'as a matter of fact, yes'. He wrote down all the supplements I'd taken and I later printed out all the info off the containers and dropped it off at his office. He called to tell me that I was taking too much zinc and it could do liver damage, but I'd stopped taking it by then. Three times since, I've started to get the symptoms back and took at least some of these things with the same results. There are two types of MD, and I think only one responds to this approach.

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Bill Jr — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:38:42 GMT

Bill M.

Dr Mercola recommends 11-12 mg of Lutein a day but there is only 6mg in his whole foods+ minerals. Does he suggest that I add more from a supplement? I have been taking a 200 mg supplement until I switched to the Whole Food Multivitamin. Isd there a danger to taking too much Lutein>