At 37 my eyesight is starting to have bad days - usually fatigued depending on the Facebooking action from the night before. Being a photographer, I need pinhole sharp peepers. I can always flick the digi camera dial to autofocus - if I can find the damn thing - anything under 15cm is a bit fuzzy now and makes my head hurt.
Focus used to be possible at a lovely visually acute 10cm, apparently the distance between a mother's loving gaze into her newborn's whilst breastfeeding in a glowing reverie. Well those days are way over. Now it's more likely I can just register an incoming headbutt at 10 o'clock at a k.p.h. hard to judge whilst I wait for my vision to pull focus.
The $20 cheapie glasses at the newsagency give me superhero vision until I take them off and start dry retching from the naseau they induce into the mints and jellybean section, and before I march into the optometrist and pay $800 for a Calvin Klein look I have been thinking about what I can do to improve my eyes au natural.
I have invented the 'Eyesight Salad' - full of food that will give you bouncy, stretchy, muscular (eye)balls and keep macular degeneration still waiting in the nightclub queue.
EYESIGHT SALAD (for 2)
2 handfuls of washed baby spinach
125g small tin of Red Salmon (check label, get Wild Red Sockeye - Coles have a good brand)
1 advocado sliced
1/2 pear sliced
1/2 small red onion finely sliced
sprinkle of pine nuts or any chopped nuts
toss ingredients together and use a dressing of your choice, eg. Balsamic vinegar with Olive oil and garlic
Devour blindly
