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The Carrot Story Was Wartime Propaganda
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The Carrot Story Was Wartime Propaganda
Well who knew.
Were you told that eating carrots would help you see in the dark?
Well it turns out that the British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the Royal Air Force relied on top-secret radar and wanted to hide their tech.
“In truth, carrots can’t help the average person see better in the dark any more than eating blueberries will turn them blue.”
Our bodies must convert plant beta-carotene into vitamin A and it takes about 12 micrograms of dietary beta-carotene to provide the vitamin A activity of 1 microgram of preformed retinol.
Another piece of marketing propaganda.
Did you grow up believing the carrot story? What other “health facts” have you since discovered were clever marketing or propaganda?
Read more from the Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/
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Yes! Several…
1. That sugar was OK to eat.
2. That seed oils, margarine and artificial grease (Crisco) was good to eat.
3. That bread, pasta and other seed based products are good to eat.
4. That VEGETABLES are good to eat.
It took me many decades to unlearn those bad lessons.
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That the sun is dangerous and will cause skin cancer so you must avoid it and smear (poisonous, toxic ) sunscreen all over whenever you go out.
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Maybe research Charlotte and Max Gerson. Charlotte never wore glasses well into her 90s. Her recipe for good health included lots of carrot juice!!
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Interesting … will have a dig.
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The mantra was : Fish was good for the brain. I grew up in Newfoundland eating the tasty Atlantic cod before it was depleted by the freezer factory trawlers.
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When I was a kid in the 50’s, carrots were a staple in many meals, and very few kids needed glasses, coincidence? Who knows, but it’s well established that vitamin A is beneficial to eyesight, perhaps the veggies we produce now are not as nutrient dense as they once were, chem-trails, spring to mind.
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Vitamin A is essential for eyesight, although carrots contain beta-carotene, the body must turn that into vitamin A before it can use it. This process isn’t very efficient: it takes about 12 units of beta-carotene from food to make just 1 unit of usable vitamin A. Animal foods already contain vitamin A in a form the body can use more easily.
I think screens are the real issue these days when it comes to children needing glasses.
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