November 03, 2022
Eating carrots does not improve a healthy person’s vision, but British propaganda helped popularize this myth during World War II. Not wanting to reveal their new onboard radar systems, they claimed their pilots’ nighttime success came from carrot-enhanced vision.
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Can Eating Too Many Carrots Make Your Skin Turn Orange?
You’ve been on a health kick and have been bingeing on baby carrots as your afternoon snack. You look in the mirror one day and notice a slight orangeness to your skin tone. Are you imagining things? Maybe not! Carrots and other orange fruits and vegetables are rich in a pigment known as
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