Eat your way to healthier eyes. Just like the skin and other organs, your eyes need certain nutrients to function properly and stay healthy. And now, with the American Optometric Association's Web site, Eye on Nutrition (aoa.org/eyeon nutrition), it's easy to find out if you're getting enough of the six most important ones: the antioxidant vitamins C and E; the carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin and More ...
beta carotene; and the mineral zinc. Log on and answer a few questions about your health history, lifestyle and diet, and you'll get a personal evaluation and tips on ways to better maintain your eyes.Keep the eye area moisturized. The best thing you can do to improve the way your eyes look is to moisturize the skin around them. Look for creams containing powerful moisturizers such as glycerin, sodium hyaluronate and vitamin E.
Also, look for gentle eye creams that contain vitamin K and the natural skin-lighteners kojic acid and licorice extract. Some experts believe dark circles are caused by veins and capillaries showing through the thin undereye skin--why vitamin K, which seems to constrict capillaries, seems to help.Make the skin look more radiant--and you more wide awake. Peels and eye creams with alpha- or polyhydroxy acids can aid in speeding the turnover of skin cells, helping to reveal smoother-looking skin underneath.Use eye creams with SPF 15 or higher every day to protect from the sun's collagen-depleting rays.