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Like carrots. The British promulgated the belief that carrots improve eyesight to explain the effective of their aircraft spotters, instead of radar.
by hyperpallium 11y ago
Like carrots.
The British promulgated the belief that carrots improve eyesight to explain the effective of their aircraft spotters, instead of radar.
- incepted 11y agoAs a matter of fact, I've never seen rabbits wearing glasses.
- golergka 11y agohttp://sussex4hnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Monmouth-Rabbit.png http://sussex4hnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Monmouth-...
- epimetheus 11y agoWell, naturally, rabbits don't even eat carrots[0] [0]-http://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rabbits/diet/myths http://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/rabbits/diet/m...
- BrandonY 11y agoDespite Snopes confirming this, I refuse to admit that it's true. Nethack wouldn't lie to me like that.
- kamaal 11y ago>>Like carrots. Poor thing. As a kid I told my cousin(he wore glasses), that carrots were good for the eyes, to a point I exaggerated if he ate enough he could get rid of them altogether at some point. He would eat kgs of carrots.
- eastbayjake 11y agoThis is easily the craziest thing I've learned so far in 2016 and why I love reading Hacker News so much
- meagain20000 11y agoYou mean to tell me they are not?!! I remember reading that carrots have some nutrient necessary for good eye sight, beta-catorene I believe. I don't think it improves your current eye sight so much as it keeps it from going bad from a lack of it.
- robertfw 11y agoit's got a grain of truth to it, so it's a believable smokescreen
- Geee 11y agoYup, actually carrots are good source of beta-carotene / Vitamin A which is necessary for good eye health and vision. Obviously carrots aren't the only source though. "Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system and good vision.[2] Vitamin A is needed by the retina of the eye in the form of retinal, which combines with protein opsin to form rhodopsin, the light-absorbing molecule[3] necessary for both low-light (scotopic vision) and color vision." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A
- CWuestefeld 11y agoSo getting sufficient vitamin A from carrots or other sources is instrumental in keeping your eyes healthy. That's not the same thing as saying that eating additional carrots will give you super-vision.