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You don’t have to lose your vision if you have macular degeneration. Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight © is one small part of a health-care model used by more than 25% of the world's population, and meets U.S. government Dietary Guidelines for Americans to eat a variety of colorful vegetables highest in vitamins A (carotenoids) and C.

There are hundreds of research studies showing that even as you age there is an easy way to protect the macula, retina and lens, and even improve your vision. If you are not part of the less than one percent of those with macular degeneration who have reached the point of legal blindness, prevention is still an option.

The way is vegetables. Not a lot of vegetables, rather, a combination of vegetables based on color.

Over the past fifteen years there has been an explosion of research from around the world showing that the compounds that give plants their rainbow of colors, called phytochemicals, are so powerful that they protect against more than fifty degenerative diseases. Their discovery is being called a “revolution in nutrition” because the average degree of risk reduction for these diseases, from eating vegetables and other plant foods, is around 50%!

And because 25% of the nutrients we absorb from food go to nourishing our visual system-eyes, nerves, blood vessels and tissues- our eyes stand to benefit the most.

The greatest funding and research support for phytochemical research has been by the National Cancer Institute. Here’s what Gloria Stables, director of the National Cancer Institute’s 5  a Day for Better Health program, which encourages Americans to eat fruits and vegetables, has to say; “Color, color, color is the rule to live by. The more reds, oranges, greens, yellows, and blues you see on the plate, the more health-promoting properties you are getting.”

The breakthrough year for eye research was in 1997 when different studies found
1) that those with AMD (Advanced Macular Degeneration) showed a 30% reduced macular pigment density, 2) a correlation in seniors between increased lens density (cataracts) and reduced macular pigment density, and lastly—the scientific bombshell that macular pigment density can be increased by eating foods high in the yellow pigments lining the macula.

Since then, a growing number of respected opthalmologists and researchers have accepted the conclusion that age-related macular degeneration is nutrition-responsive, that vision loss can be prevented and even possibly reversed by eating a variety of colored vegetables. Simply, Color equals vegetable nutrition.

Until now, most of the research you need to know about saving your eyesight has been in scientific journals intended for other researchers, often not in English, spread around in various magazine articles or appearing in bits and pieces throughout books that do a great job explaining what macular degeneration IS, and how to adjust to it- but not how you can do something to save your sight right now, namely, consume the right variety of colorful vegetables.

Since 1994 we have been painstakingly assembling what the experts around the world are saying and writing about vegetables fighting blindness. It’s a non-jargon, easy to read, review-summary, titled Vegetables Fighting Blindness: Eye Nutrition Research Summary © and is the only compilation with the essential research in one place. CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW. We want you to have it…at no charge.

The deal is, it is free with Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight©,  which shows how you can easily and simply make power combinations of colored vegetables-and fruit- to literally flood your eyes with vegetable nutrients and antioxidants.   

CLICK HERE FOR A PREVIEW OF COLOR VEGETABLE COMBINING FOR EYESIGHT©

Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight©  was originally prepared to accompany our own dehydrated vegetable formula, sold in powder and tablets under the name, Take 5 Instant Vegetable Refresher®. The dehydrated vegetable blend has been sold throughout the U.S. and Canada in various mail order catalogs. You may have also seen it on the shelves of over 100 health food stores in 10 western states, or in Japan and Korea. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHERE AND FOR TESTIMONIAL. We don’t want to sell you the vegetable blend, and aren’t offering it for sale even if you ask—forget about it! We believe the future is in using the information avalanche about vegetables for eye health to do it yourselves in your own kitchen.

The prevention solution is in the produce section. What you need to know is the easy to learn “code” that links vegetables by color into a single powerful weapon of destruction against the bad guys, the out-of-control “free radical” chain reactions that hit on the cells of your eyes 10,000 times a day. Fight back with vegetables and you just may win the battle for your sight.

Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight©,  like our formula, is based on a 700 year old tradition of combining vegetables by color. CLICK HERE FOR A Short History of Five Phase Dietary Therapy: The Origins of Five Color Vegetable Combining©.

These two pictures show a traditional and modern view of the eyes based on five phase diagnosis and treatment, called the five spheres or five wheels. Stay tuned to this website for updates and more information beyond the brief introduction given here (8-3-2001).

The method we use to combine vegetables by color corresponds to the dietary component of five spheres diagnosis and treatment, which is to provide proper nutrition to the eyes, and is the one that you will learn in Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight©.  Today , combined with western medicine, this approach to health and eye care is still practiced by more than a quarter of the world’s population—so think twice before calling it alternative medicine. There’s nothing alternative about it to the ones benefiting from it, plus, it’s meant to be self-care and free. And it works.

The leading practitioners in China are traditionally trained opthalmologists using modern medicine, and/or acupuncture specialists who have developed new methods of eye diagnosis and treatment based on traditional five phase theory. A recent analysis reports “a high degree” of success for more than 10,000 patients.
Eye Acupuncture Therapy, Chief Editor Zhao Xin, 1997, p.51.

Five phase eye care is based on nutrition for the eyes. The principle is as simple as it is ancient: that the eyes can see objects and distinguish colors after the supply of enough nourishment to them. Treatment focuses on correcting imbalances in the body preventing the eyes from getting nourishment from the digestion, absorption and distribution of food.

It is sometimes called “holistic ophthalmology” because the eyes are treated as a junction for the entire body. In that respect it is similar to the western assumption that 25% of the body’s nutrition goes to feed the eyes.

The aim of traditional color vegetable combining for eyesight is to assign food values to all the colors of the visible spectrum and combine them so as to assist the body in producing nutritive essence, which encompasses the rainbow of colors in food like spokes of a wheel around a hub. The hub is the brightest, most intense hue of yellow. In western terms, all the colors combine to provide the full range of phytochemical antioxidant protection.

Our approach is unique in two ways.

First, our own product, is formulated from vegetables in the western United States, which we believe work best for our blend and is reflected in some of the vegetable choices in Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight ©.That doesn’t mean you can’t combine vegetables by color wherever you happen to live. 

Secondly, the doctors pictured on this page, and most of the doctors pictured in the Short History of Dietary Therapy on this site, practiced and contributed to an exercize component of five phase dietary therapy that became known as internal kung fu. It includes the world’s most practiced internal martial art, Tai Chi. Every day in China over 100 million people do its physical form movements.

Our own formula, upon which Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight © is based,  has a long family history behind it, which we won’t go into here, other than to say it has always been meant to accompany both internal kung fu, as well as eye massage, called “eye protection exercizes. ”

There are two forms of five phase based internal kung fu: Tai Chi and Hsing I.

Chang San-feng is the founder of Tai Chi. Legend has it that he began his training with the Shaolin monks in the 13th century. Afterwards, he developed Tai Chi for health and martial strength. Tai Chi practice circulates internal energy through graceful, slow moving movements. The five phases relate to five movement-directions: advance, retreat, shift to the left, shift to the right, and center of gravity or equilibrium.

The story of a Master who took up Tai Chi after a severe illness is illustrative. He writes that after he learned Tai Chi "…dim eyesight disappeared. Now in my 55th year of age I can do everything anyone else is normally able to do. My eyesight has improved to a state even better than it was thirty years ago…."
Cheng Man-ch'ing, trans. by Dr. Beauson Tseng,T'ai Chi Ch'uan: A Simplified Method of Calisthenics for Health & Self Defense, 1981, p.29

The great Sung General Yueh Fei also developed a form of five phase kung fu, called Hsing I, to improve his soldiers' health as well as to teach them an effective fighting method. Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight © includes the names of the five kung fu movements corresponding to each phase, along with a brief explanation.

	Hua T’o.  In recent years a number of new eye protection exercizes, or finger massage around the eyes have been developed. They are  based on eye self-massage techniques that were widely practiced in ancient China. The Han dynasty (202 B.C.-220A.D.) physician  Hua T’o can be considered the “modernizing” source for them. He
made a lasting contribution to eye acupressure by 1) establishing that the body and eyes are an integrated unit, which is central to today’s five spheres treatment,  and secondly, that the fingers can provide results similar to needles (acupuncture), but are safer, simpler to use and more convenient.

Hua T'o also invented a physical therapy exercize known as five-animal play, that became associated with improving the absorption of food nutrients. His most famous quote is remarkable, because macular free radical damage resulting from normal cellular metabolism is often compared to rust. He wrote

"When one is physically active, the energy that one takes in with one's food becomes available for use, the bodily fluids can circulate without hindrance, and sickness cannot take hold of one-just like the hinge on the door, which always turns and never rusts.''

We strongly recommend that you accompany Color Vegetable Combining for Eyesight© with some form of exercize.

But the starting point for eye health always comes back to what you eat. Nothing can feed your eyesight like a rainbow of colored vegetables. Instead of worrying about not eating enough vegetables, begin by learning how easy it is to combine a few of them into power combinations for vision.

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