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WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (2013)
- jmnicolas 10y agoSeriously I really believed this thing: back in the days when I was practicing Ninjutsu I ate carrots 2 times a day! I always thought that it didn't work just because you needed a few years of carrots eating to get results. Now I feel fooled and by a 75 yo fake news at that!
- kevin_thibedeau 10y agoYou were also suckered into the ninja fad.
- taneq 10y agoIt was the turtles, wasn't it?
- iamshs 10y agoNow I want to turn into anti-carrot lobbyist, as this was a ploy to increase carrot consumption through fake news propaganda. My father had me eat so many carrots because he fell for fake news :( Now if I only know who propaganda'd that neem leaves puree helps purify blood. One of the worst memories of my childhood, they are so insanely bitter.
- harveywi 10y agoHopefully more will be wary of the leeks of Julienne Assange.
- jghn 10y agoAs a child my parents would tell me to not sit so close to the TV as it'd ruin my eyesight. I concocted some sort of wacky formula for how many carrots I needed per unit of time sitting close to the TV. It turns out that I have excellent eyesight, the only one in the family who doesn't wear glasses. If it weren't so ridiculous I'd actually wonder a bit about the effect my formula had.
- ars 10y agoSo, what's the formula? :) Might work for people with children, have the kids pay for computer time with carrots LOL
- jghn 10y agoI wish I could remember although considering I recall one of the components involved me visualizing time as decrementing hourglass-y down the hallway which lined up with where I was sitting I'm thinking it wasn't particularly rigorous.
- veidr 10y agoThis is a technique that I actually do use with my 4-year-old. He can "buy" extra time to stay up reading (2 baby carrots), 3 extra games of splatoon (7 baby carrots), and so on.
- flukus 10y agoI think this may be parent speak for "stop blocking the goddamn TV". Kids often lack the awareness of what's around them, some can stand a foot in front of the TV in a room with a dozen other people watching it and not realize they're blocking it. This along with the general excitability, it may just be easier to tell kids it's dangerous to sit that close.
- lazyasciiart 10y agoMy parents told me that. It turned out I was already very short sighted and couldn't see clearly across an entire room. Until I was 5 I just thought everyone else was putting up with blurry tv.
- kristopolous 10y agoNinjutsu? Did you practice horsemanship, espionage, or impersonation? I'm serious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjutsu#The_eighteen_skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjutsu#The_eighteen_skills). Were live horses and stables involved? Were there method acting lessons? How did this work? I can imagine a complete school would be fascinating, rare (given the amount of land required) and quite an achievement. Is there an organization analogous to say Hombu (http://www.aikikai.or.jp/eng/information/ http://www.aikikai.or.jp/eng/information/ ... essentially the Vatican City of Aikido)?
- harveywi 10y agoSo glad someone peeled away the lies to get to the root of the matter. This fallacious carrot shtick must come to an end.
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- HeavenBanned 10y agoIsn't their reasoning sound? I believe if you have a Vitamin A deficiency you can get night blindness. So they reasoned...if you aren't seeing well in the dark, eat more carrots, because carrots have Vitamin A and therefore carrots will help you see better in the dark.
- mirimir 10y agoWell, I still love carrot almond halwa :)
- iamshs 10y agoOne of the best sweets ever. In Punjab, we majorly use buffalo milk, and my grandma used to feed one of the buffalos special diet of "varhevein" (mustard seed pith cake after de-oiling), then the milk underwent process of "kaarhni", essentially slow boiling over an afternoon which gives it a very unique taste akin to smokey BBQ. We used fresh carrots for the halwa, and make it on open pit in a cast iron pan. No recipe or method has come closer to that. Insanely rich sweet.
- mirimir 10y agoThat sounds delicious!
- fnj 10y agoFake "science". Vitamin A deficiency most definitely can cause night blindness. In the event you suffer from a deficiency, carrots most definitely can address it. I have personal experience with this. I couldn't see anything at all in low light, so I took up drinking fresh carrot juice in significant quantities, and within two weeks it was like a dark curtain had been withdrawn from before my eyes. I have doubts that eating a carrot a day would do a whole lot of good, but I can tell you that 8 ounces of fresh carrot juice a day definitely does!
- adventured 10y agoI gave semi high dose lutein (45mg per day) a try as I noticed my eyes weakening (early problems with long-distance vision, night vision). Helped substantially, took maybe two months to have a noticeable effect though.
- nitemice 10y agoWould you recommend this for people with established short-sightedness? I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year.
- teslabox 10y ago> I'm always worried about my eyes getting worse, and they have been, year after year. Sometimes people's vision prescriptions are too strong. I started going to a 'developmental optometrist' about 12 years ago. While I don't see 20/20 with my current glasses, I tried stronger lenses from a conventional optometrist 7 years ago and found them intolerable. When he wanted to charge me for another office visit for the contact prescription, I just ordered the prescription I wanted from an internet contacts store.
- overcast 10y agoHow do you order from an online contacts store, without a valid doctors prescription? I've worn glasses since I was in kindergarten, and contacts since I was seventeen. Never have I been able to order contacts online, without a doctors prescription. They expire within a year typically.
- talmand 10y agoIt amuses me to see this pop up from time-to-time in movies and TV. "And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies! bunnies! It must be bunnies!!"
- snowwrestler 10y agoThis story, and the UFO stories from the 50s and 60s, demonstrate the enduring power of a well-crafted cover story. Long after the real secret information is widely known (radar and experimental aircraft), the cover stories are still widely believed.
- bracobama 10y agoMy parents made me LOVE carrots as a kid in the early 90s by promising that they would grant me this super human power of night vision and damnit I bought into it hook, line, and sinker. I'm not sure if carrots would be my favourite vegetable today if it wasn't for this propaganda.
- lazyjones 10y agoHow about cannabis then? http://hightimes.com/medicinal/new-study-suggests-cannabis-improves-night-vision/ http://hightimes.com/medicinal/new-study-suggests-cannabis-i...
- midgetjones 10y agoThis still doesn't explain why I've never seen a rabbit wearing glasses.
- z0noxz 10y agoslow clapping
- ainiriand 10y agoWWII Propaganda Popularized the Myth That the US and not the soviets defeated the nazi army.