Dr. Susan Elizondo on Carotenoid Vegetables

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WEEK 14 – CAROTENOID VEGETABLES PREVENT EYE DISEASES

Featured Doctor:    Susan Elizondo, MS, OD

Dr. Susan Elizondo is a plant-based optometrist in Austin, Texas. Growing up near Houston, she loved to read and is still a bookworm to this day. When not seeing patients, you’ll often find her head in a book though now instead of sci-fi, the books are usually on nutrition and health.

Dr. Elizondo graduated 6th in her class in high school and went on a Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo scholarship to Texas A&M University where she earned a Bachelors in Genetics. After undergrad Dr. Elizondo relocated to the Rochester, New York and earned a Master of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology and after graduate school she spent 4 months living in South America teaching English in the local schools and learning Spanish. Upon returning to the United States she attended optometry school in New York City at SUNY College of Optometry spending one externship abroad in China and post-graduation, Dr. Elizondo decided to return home to Texas.

In recent years Dr. Elizondo has developed a passion for nutrition as a method of healing diseases and practices a plant-based approach to health and healing. In the 8 years she has been practicing optometry she has turned from treating only eye diseases to educating patients on how systemic disease can lead to eye disease. She takes an active part in the local Whole Food Plant Based community in Austin and is one of the co-leaders of ATX Alive.

Did you know that eating carotenoid rich vegetables reduces your risk for eye diseases like: macular degeneration and glaucoma, and can slow down cataracts?

Dr. Elizondo’s Challenge to you:
Eat more carotenoid rich vegetables and reduce your risk for eye diseases like macular degeneration and glaucoma, and slow down the impact of cataracts.

Some of the underlying causes of most eye disease are oxidative stress and inflammation. Eating carotenoid rich vegetables help to quench them both. Overall systemic diseases create localized manifestations named macular degeneration and glaucoma.

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Find out more about our Featured Doctor and the subject of Eye Health. Watch this video recording of the Physicians On Call LIVE, when Dr. Elizondo shared how increasing your eye health also improves other health factors.

Dr. Elizondo responded to questions and she shared her journey, the positivity of bringing family into the journey, and the interesting insights she gained because of being from Texas where eating beef is a normal past-time. Watch this video to find out answers to questions you may have had.

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To assist you on your journey, here are some easy to follow steps to help you meet This Week’s Challenge:

Carotenoid rich vegetables are anything yellow, orange, red, or dark leafy green. If it’s a fruit or vegetable with these rich colors, go for it. Here are some things you should know.

[1] Eat lots of Kale. Kale has about a hundred times more of the nutritional value than you would get in egg yolks. Fruits or vegetables are a better source of nutritional value than eggs, milk and other dairy products. Fruits and vegetables provide more value, even while eating a smaller amounts, and jthey have a pretty massive effect on macular degeneration.

[2] There’s a study showing that patients who ate five or more servings of spinach or collard greens a week, reduced the risk of macular degeneration by about 86 percent compared to those who ate leafy greens less than once a week. That’s a pretty huge result. It’s not like it’s just a little impact. It’s pretty big. Eat more carotenoid vegetables.

[3] Dark leafy greens are a big winner. Aside from their effect on oxidative stress and helping prevent inflammation is that they’re very nitrate rich, so they help protect that end of the allele lining of our blood vessels and help it function more normally over time. That systemic improvement in the whole body, also promotes eye health.

[4] Overall systemic diseases create localized manifestations. Many show up in the form of mascular degeneration and glaucoma.

[5] The Epoch Oxford study out of Europe looked at health-conscious, non-diabetic individuals (about 30,000) and found that as you go from high meat-eater (8+ servings the size of a deck of cards a day) to a moderate to low – pescetarian – that turned vegan, the cataract risk went down in a stepwise fashion. It reduced to being 40% less likely to get cataracts and being able to push off having cataract surgery longer because of this simple dietary change.

[6] Get these carotenoid rich vegetables with a delicious, fruit-healthy sweet smoothie in the morning.

Dr. Elizondo’s Favorites:

FAVORITE DOCUMENTARIES
-Forks Over Knives
-What the Health

FAVORITE BOOKS
-The Healthiest Diet on the Planet by Dr. John McDougall
-How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger

RECIPE RESOURCES: 
-Forks Over Knives Cookbook by Dr. T. Colin Campbell

WEBSITE RESOURCES:  
www.atxalive.com
www.drmcdougall.com

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Tips from the Kitchen

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Whole Food, Plant-Based Resources

Evidence based, medical research, other resources and stories that will impact you:

ADDITIONAL RECEIPES

** Salads never looked as gorgeous as this!  Try this Roasted Carrot and Fennel Salad from our friends at Forks over Knives.  
https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/roasted-carrot-and-fennel-salad/#gs.TDQba2w

** Snowstorm Ready Soups – 4 Soup Recipes to Keep You Warm
https://nutritionstudies.org/snowstorm-ready-soups-4-soup-recipes-to-keep-you-warm/

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have a great week and remember your Challenge for this week.

To Your Plantiful Good Health!
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