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What if you could make a conscious effort to add six healthy foods to your plate and make an improvement in your longevity on your eyesight?

The key, say some researchers, is to outsmart your body, which, as you age, is busy half-forming or damaging your cells, rather than creating healthy new cells resistant to cancer, rapid aging, and other ills.

These cells are damaged by “free radicals,” a very reactive and unstable atom or groups of atoms with an odd, unpaired number of electrons. When free radicals bang into DNA in your cells, they can damage it, leading to bad cell behavior such as cancer.

What can you do to protect your eyesight? Your body already has a defense system of antioxidants, chemicals that can interrupt the damaging reactions of the free radicals.

Although antioxidants can also be found in our diets, examples include vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin C. Sometimes, scientists also include selenium in this mix.

But do vitamins definitively lower cancer or heart disease rates? The studies thus far are not conclusive. Some findings do show that people who eat many fruits and veggies, which contain high amounts of these naturally antioxidants compounds, have lower cancer rates — but maybe they are doing other healthful things.

According to WebMD & Peoria Journal Star (PJ Star), you can get more bang per bite by incorporating these 6 healthy foods into your diet; the 6 healthy food list are as follows:

*Spinach

*Oysters

*Green Tea

*Walnuts

*Pumpkin

*Salmon