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How Many Carrots Do You Need To Eat To Turn Orange?

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 10 Jan 16

About a week ago I wrote a post called "Strange But Quite True Facts". In this post was a fact stating that eating too many carrots could turn your skin orange. In the comments a few people mentioned that it would be interesting...

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Do you use Vitamin A?

roxanne271 @roxanne271 (2034) • Trinidad And Tobago 27 May 08

I take multi-vitamins and also a B vitamin supplement that contains a mixture of all the B vitamins along with some other vitamins in there. Today I went to the drugstore to get some more of my usual multi-vitamins and remembered...

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Beta carotene pills may not save vision

chardyme @chardyme (1631) • Philippines 12 Mar 07

CHICAGO - Carrots, rich in beta carotene, long have been thought to sharpen eyesight, but a new study suggests that beta carotene pills are powerless against a common type of vision loss among older people. Age-related macular...