Carrots really do help you see in the dark!
It turns out carrots really do give your eyes a boost because they contain beta-carotene, which the body is able to convert into vitamin A, an essential vitamin for healthy vision. More »
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Your mother always told you eating carrots would help you see better, but did she ever tell you why? No, this wasn't just ... The earliest sign of vitamin A deficiency is a decrease in dark adaptation,
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The longer answer is about how the myth came about. In WW2 theBritish were using radar to find enemy airplanes, but to keep radar a secret they told the whole of Britain they were feeding their men carrots. Germany then started feeding thei...
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This story began during the second world war when the British government wanted to explain away their success at shooting down German bombers and hide their use of radar. There is even some limited truth in the story. The protein rhodopsin ...
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From the article on carrots at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot Lack of Vitamin A can cause poor vision, including night vision, and vision can be restored by adding Vitamin A back into the diet. The urban legend that says eat...
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Nope. That was a big myth styarted in the war to explain why the RAF pilots were able to be so successful at night against German bombers. And in fact it was the highly secret, newly invented radar that helped them.
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Actually it is sort of the other way around, -not- eating carrots, or getting some other good source of certain vitamins may potentially lead to a deficiency of the vitamin A, and one of the symptoms of vitamin A deficiency is night blindne...
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GRANNY was right – carrots really can help you see in the dark AND can combat cancer ... Carrots help you see in dark...
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Carrots can help you see in the dark if you plug them into a light socket......lol... How much to eat.....well if you turn orange (that has happened to some people) then that may be a little too much.
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The folk belief that carrots enable one to see in the dark--or at least improve vision--enabled the British Royal Air Force to disguise its use of radar from the Germans during World War II.
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If you the eat carrots from Chenobyl you would glow in the dark and your glow would help you to see...so...YES...
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