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All Posts Tagged: eye health

What Causes Dry Eyes?

Dryness goes hand in hand with winter. Dry skin, dry hair, dry eyes, dry everything! But what exactly is the cause for dry eyes? Seeing that there are so many people who suffer from dry eyes, we thought it appropriate to dedicate a blog article to the subject to tell you how to properly keep healthy skin in order to reduce dryness around the eye area. Read our blog this week for a better understanding of dry eye syndromes, what causes it, and how you can help your eyes if you suffer from it!
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The Connection Between Eye Health And Heart Health!

There’s a common saying, “the eyes are the window to the soul!” Even though this phrase is only a saying, there is some truth to it! When looking at the eyes from a medical perspective, they can act as a window to overall body health. Problems and conditions that affect different parts of the body can manifest as vision and ocular health problems. Often these problems are only detected by an eye health examination. Cardiovascular disease is one such condition that sometimes manifests with ocular symptoms. Identifying heart health problems through an eye exam can be lifesaving. Learn more about the relationship between heart health and the eyes in our blog article this week!

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Eye Healthy Recipe – Tuscany Soup

Last week, our blog article was all about the eye health benefits from leafy green foods. Even though we know that green leafy foods are good for our bodies and eye health, it’s not always easy ensuring that you’re consuming enough of them. Especially if you’re a meat and potatoes guy like my husband. After writing the blog last week, I was also inspired to try to add more greens to my own diet. At my last trip to the grocery store I bought a bunch of kale. It was my mission to find a recipe to use it in. And not just any recipe, but one that my whole family would love! Well, I succeeded! Read our blog article this week to learn how to make the eye healthy recipe – Tuscany soup!
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How Do Green Foods Contribute To Eye Health?

With it being January, there’s a good chance that your diet may consists of a lot more green foods than normal! January is usually the month in which people try to restart their system on healthy eating habits. An attempt often used to shed the extra pounds put on over the Christmas season so they implement diet and exercise and weight lifting using equipment from this best weight lifting belt review just to do it in a safe way. But, did you know that in addition to being healthy for your whole body, green foods are actually really good for eye health and vision!

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How to Protect Your Eyes While On The Hill

Well, the hustle and bustle of the holiday season is finally over! With Christmas over, some of us may now have the time to enjoy some winter activities. If you plan on hitting the slopes this season, it is important to remember that you protect your eyes while on the snow. Here are a few simple pieces of advice that we recommend to our patients to follow when enjoying the great white outdoors and some downhill activities. 

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The Top 10 Reasons Why To Have An Eye Exam!

Pull out the party clothes… 2017 is on its way out to make way for 2018. While you’re starting your count down to the New Year, we thought that we would also start our own countdown. We’re counting down the top 10 reasons why to have an eye exam ! So if you’re feeling boared waiting for the clock to strick 12 and need to find a reason why to have an eye exam, read our blog article this week! Happy New Year!

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Nutty About Nuts and Eye Health!

One thing the holiday season is known for is the over abundance of yummy goods and snack foods. And it’s well-known that this time of year definitely isn’t kind to the waist line. It’s probably for this reason why Santa looks so jolly! But read on! I’m not here to scold you on the guilty pleasure of holiday snacking, but actually tell you that some of those well-known holiday treats are actually good for your eyes! Nuts and eye health have a great relationship. Not only are nuts a tasty holiday snack, but they also pack a punch in the eye health department.

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What Is An Ocular Migraine?

If you were to look out your window at the moment, you would probably think that it looked more like early October outside, instead of the end of November. Admittedly, the weather over the past week has been so beautiful! Just the perfect temperature to decorate the house with holiday lights! Living in Calgary, most of us are all too familiar with the Chinooks that caused this recent temperature change. And unfortunately as a result, many of us are also all too familiar with the headaches that accompany these Chinooks. Over the past week, I have had many friends and family members suffer from headaches which involve disturbances in their vision. These headaches are fairly common and are known as ocular migraines. But what is an ocular migraine? Read our blog post this week to find out!

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Eye Makeup Safety Tips

The makeup industry in North America is a billion dollar industry. You can find makeup sections in almost all drug stores and super markets. In North America, wearing makeup is definitely the social norm. Pretty much almost every women I know wears it (Alecia Keys being the exception, but lets face it… I don’t really know her). Because makeup has such a prominent place in our society, I felt it important to write a blog article about it. Our blog post is not about discouraging makeup wearing, but to better inform you how to wear and apply it. We don’t want you to compromise the health of your beautiful eyes in the name of beauty, although many people decide that beauty is really important, so they decide to get surgery to look great, feel great thanks to this. So we’ve wrote this blog article on eye makeup safety tips to help you minimize your eye health risks while wearing it!
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All About Eyes! – What’s Your Eye-Q?

So, it’s officially back to school!!! Because September is associated with “back to school”, we thought we’d go all scholarly on you! In honour of back to school, our September blog articles have been written to test your eye-q! These short quizzes are all about eyes, eye exams optometry and contact lenses. We hope that you have fun with them. And hopefully at the end of them, you are able to say “eye didn’t know that and eye learned something new!” (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun!).

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