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Does Eating Carrots Improve Your Eyesight?

| June 2, 2014 Comment

Does Eating Carrots Improve Your Eyesight? You’ve heard it since you were a kid that eating carrots improves your eyesight. is this fact or fiction? Find out more by watching this video.

Expert: Constantine Hatzis, Ph.D. Australian Defense Force Medical Officer

Transcript

Though carrots contain a high concentration of beta-carotene, a form of vitamin A, essential for healthy eyesight, an extra helping of carrots on your plate won’t give 20/20 vision. Vitamin A deficiency can ACTUALLY cause blindness, so if you START OFF with a vitamin A deficiency, then eating more carrots will, of course, help improve your vision.

The genesis of the sight-improving attributes of this modest root vegetable is generally attributed to a campaign of misinformation carried out by the British Government during WW II. British intelligence didn’t want the Germans to know that they were using radar to detect bombing raids, so they spread the rumor that they were feeding their pilots carrots in order to improve their vision. The campaign was SO successful, that folks STILL believe it today! While carrots ARE good for you, and tasty as well, they will, sadly, not give you Superman’s x-ray vision.

Last Modified: 2014-01-17

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