Do Carrots Improve Vision?

Nope. Myth. They don't reduce refractive error, and they don't improve "night vision". The origins of this myth are actually from England during WWII when British Intelligence spread the lie to help cover up it's newest invention: RADAR! READ ABOUT IT HERE

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  1. Super interesting, love to have these old myths debunked. Just found your blog trying to figure out whats wrong with my wifes eye. Thanks to your great blog im pretty sure its epescleritis( she also has rosatia) how long does this last? Its been two weeks. Im a keyboard player too, i have a hammond and two rhodes pianos. Keep up the great blog never knew how interesting this stuff is!!

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  2. thanks for the comments!

    episcleitis can last anywhere from a few days to...months. if it doesn't go away soon I'd go to an eye doc to at least confirm the diagnosis.

    I was just playing around with one of the "rhodes" keyboard midi settings in Mixcraft! haha and you have the REAL DEAL! that's cool

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  3. Its hard to replicate the sound and feel of a real rhodes. Of course it also is super heavy and big. Thank you for your input , you are doing alot of good with this blog. Not to mention how fun it is.

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  4. more info on this:

    http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history4.html#nightvision

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  5. Someone once told me: "I started increasing my vitamin A by consuming carrots, and eventually, my eyesight started to improve."

    What more proof could this person need? People's eyesight improve regardless if they increase their vitamin A or not (i.e. adults generally become less myopic as they get older). Just because increasing vitamin A intake preceded eyesight improvement doesn't mean the increased vitamin A caused that. Such reasoning commits the post hoc fallacy.

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  6. "Someone once told me: 'I started increasing my vitamin A by consuming carrots, and eventually, my eyesight started to improve.'"

    I call this "anecdotal evidence", and it's not evidence at all. I could say that drinking an energy drink this morning made my vision improve, too. but did it? probably not.

    "People's eyesight improve regardless if they increase their vitamin A or not (i.e. adults generally become less myopic as they get older)"

    most nearsighted people become less myopic in their 40's & 50's...yes I agree. but FARsighted patients generally get MORE farsighted during the same time period. so they are most certainly not improving as they age

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