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It's funny but one never hears about the ill effects of carrots. "They" only study stuff that's already assumed to be bad for you. Ever wonder why?

ch4s3 12y ago
Are you joking? I can't tell.
- stealthlogic 12y ago
  I sure hope so...
brandonl222 12y ago
Probably because mass consumption of carrots isn't a top public health issue? If consumption of carrots rivaled that of soda I'd be willing to bet there would be more studies on it just the same as there are studies on various other foods such as red meat, egg cholesterol, fish oil, etc.
- orclev 12y ago
  Actually mass consumption of carrots can cause your skin to develop an orange tint (seriously, not joking here).
  - novalis78 12y ago
    ...and is being used by people who try to tan their skin.
  - ddispaltro 12y ago
    Same with yams. It happened to my brother when we were kids.
    - kaybe 12y ago
      How much of which jam did he eat and what did he look like? (colour/intensity)
      - Pxtl 12y ago
        Yam, not jam. As in sweet potatoes.
        hrjet 12y ago
        Yam, jam and sweet potatoes are three different things. See for example: http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetp...
        aidenn0 12y ago
        In most parts of the US a sweet potato with soft orange insides is correctly called a "Yam" to differentiate it from the sweet potatoes with firm yellow insides. Either name isn't great; it's neither closely related to the african yam, nor the common potato.
  - tsotha 12y ago
    Heh. My brother's wife was starting to look like an Oompa Loompa because of her carrot snacking habit. It was pretty funny, though it doesn't seem to have had any deleterious effect on her health.
Geee 12y ago
It's because of old-school research methods. They haven't yet developed a method which correlates any diet with any effect, so they have to look for correlations from a specific subset of data, which is assumed to return results.
wiredfool 12y ago
http://www.introducingcarrot.com/ http://www.introducingcarrot.com/
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ch4s3 12y ago

Are you joking? I can't tell.

stealthlogic 12y ago
I sure hope so...

brandonl222 12y ago

Probably because mass consumption of carrots isn't a top public health issue? If consumption of carrots rivaled that of soda I'd be willing to bet there would be more studies on it just the same as there are studies on various other foods such as red meat, egg cholesterol, fish oil, etc.

orclev 12y ago
Actually mass consumption of carrots can cause your skin to develop an orange tint (seriously, not joking here).
- novalis78 12y ago
  ...and is being used by people who try to tan their skin.
- ddispaltro 12y ago
  Same with yams. It happened to my brother when we were kids.
  - kaybe 12y ago
    How much of which jam did he eat and what did he look like? (colour/intensity)
    - Pxtl 12y ago
      Yam, not jam. As in sweet potatoes.
      - hrjet 12y ago
        Yam, jam and sweet potatoes are three different things. See for example: http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetp...
        aidenn0 12y ago
        In most parts of the US a sweet potato with soft orange insides is correctly called a "Yam" to differentiate it from the sweet potatoes with firm yellow insides. Either name isn't great; it's neither closely related to the african yam, nor the common potato.
- tsotha 12y ago
  Heh. My brother's wife was starting to look like an Oompa Loompa because of her carrot snacking habit. It was pretty funny, though it doesn't seem to have had any deleterious effect on her health.

Geee 12y ago

It's because of old-school research methods. They haven't yet developed a method which correlates any diet with any effect, so they have to look for correlations from a specific subset of data, which is assumed to return results.

wiredfool 12y ago

http://www.introducingcarrot.com/ http://www.introducingcarrot.com/

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