The British promulgated the belief that carrots improve eyesight to explain the effective of their aircraft spotters, instead of radar.
The British promulgated the belief that carrots improve eyesight to explain the effective of their aircraft spotters, instead of radar.
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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.
"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."