Do Carrots Improve Your Eyesight?
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have perfect eyesight? Carrots can help.
You could read the whiteboard from the back of the room, and you could watch TV without any squinting. Eye surgery is expensive and painful. Contacts make your eyes red and are uncomfortable, and glasses are just plain ugly. Although some people say it’s a myth, others say that carrots do indeed improve your vision.
According to Dr Amy Chow, O.D, an eye doctor at Cupertino Family Eye Care Center, carrots can improve your eyesight. They contain beta carotene, which is turned into vitamin A by the liver. The vitamin A is absorbed by retinal cells in the eyes so you can see. “There are some ways to prevent decreasing vision,” says Dr Chow, she also says to not read in the dark, keep all reading material an arms length away, and to not over read. Keeping your body healthy and fit is also one of the best preventions you can get. Every one’s genetics are different, and that is why some people have bad vision and some don’t. Also, eating too many carrots, or too many of anything can be dangerous, so don’t overdose.
On WorldwideHealth.com, it tells you some other nutrients even more important than vitamin A to help you see well. According to this website, foods high in chromium, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, zinc, selenium, glutathione, and Ginkgo Biloba will improve your vision.
Some foods high in chromium include beef, liver, eggs, chicken, oysters, wheat germ, green peppers, apples, bananas, and spinach. For vitamin C, orange juice is not the best way to go. Go with chili peppers, sweet peppers, kale, parsley, collard, turnip greens, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, and strawberries. For lutein and zeaxanthin, eat dark leafy greens, corn, nectarines, oranges, papaya, and squash. For zinc, consume oysters, red meat, and other poultry. Fish, red meant, grains, eggs, chicken, liver, garlic, brewer’s yeast, and wheat germ are high in selenium. Garlic, eggs, asparagus, onions, watermelon, and grapefruit are high in glutathione. Lastly, eating herbs from a ginkgo tree will give you ginkgo biloba.
The Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute also says that carrots will improve your sight because of the vitamin A, which is essential for vision. Carrots aren’t the only food with vitamin A. Milk, cheese, eggs, yolk, and liver are also high in vitamin A.
Also, the clinic implies that, unlike Dr Chow, reading in the dark and watching TV from close up will NOT worsen your sight; it will just give you a headache. However, staring into the sun will indeed weaken your vision. The clinic also tells that if you experience slight blurriness in your vision for the first time, go to the eye doctor right away, because if it is detected early enough, you can correct, stop, or slow down your loss of vision.
On the other hand, Snopes.com declares that carrots and eyesight is just another urban legend. They state that carrots do not improve vision. Too much vitamin A can be toxic, just like any other nutrient.
Also, if you search up this issue on here, there will be lots if disagreement about this. You will find lots of answers saying that carrots do improve vision, and answers saying that carrots do not improve vision.
Evidently, there are lots of different opinions about this topic. Most experts agree that carrots make your vision better, but some do not. You may have not been blessed with 20/20 eyesight, but a dose of carrots might just do the trick.
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YENALICIOUS | May 26, 2008 | Reply
i think i’m gonna grab a carrot…….helloooooo safeway
YEE | May 27, 2008 | Reply
hey robert,
you choose a great question!!! this question has an answer along with different beleifs. i wish my question actually had an answer.jk. overall, it was GREAT!!!!! although… i eat alot of carrots, but my stupid optomitrist says i still need glasses!!oh poo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bill | Jun 1, 2008 | Reply
this is great. i think ill eat a carrot… =]
Matthew Lemar Clem | Jun 10, 2008 | Reply
BOO HOO!!! WHO CARES IF YOU NEED GLASSES!!PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY CARE IF I GET GLASSES!!!
nichellecambal | Jul 20, 2008 | Reply
hhhmmmm, maybe i should start eating MORE carrots…i want my 20/20 vision back!! ugghhh….
I will not tell you... | Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
YUCK!!! im about to spit these pieces of carrot right into the trash can! though i wont because this is for my own good. how do they make the carrots taste so good in the vegetarian sushi? hmmm… well, my life is bad enough, i wouldnt want to add blindness to the list. being a fifth grade, PKU girl,
with braces and glasses is hard. i feel like such a geak… especialy
sence i can understand everything on this web page.
sweets PLEASE REPLY!! | Jan 10, 2009 | Reply
um… can someone answer back.. im just wooried that by the time im older ill get blind, and if i get eye surgery, i might lose my vision in some complication. Has any1 had their eye sight get better because of something they tried?? PLEASE REPLY!!
Edgar | Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
idk about you sweets but i am trying i for sure im starting today 3 carots a day i took off my glasses and will keep them off using glasses can interfere with the procedure.also be sureto eat alot of bananas etc like it said on this article. eat healthy along with carrots in a week ill post again here to see if it worked.the carrots taste good though lol.
Greg | Mar 9, 2009 | Reply
Eating carrots to improve eyesight is common in German foklore. When the English starting using Radar to locate German bases during WWII, they started the propoganda that the pilots were eating carrots in order to find the German installations in the dark. Not long after that, carrot gardens starting appearing all over England and then the US. While it is true that carrots contain Beta Carotene and that Beta Carotene is converted to Vitamin A which can increase some night vision, you would have to eat a huge amount of carrots for any benefit to be determined. It is just a myth and urban legend.
Health | Mar 13, 2009 | Reply
This is a myth. Vitamin A can actually destory your eyes and cause you to loose your vision. Google It! You’ll get your answers.
Question Mark | Mar 25, 2009 | Reply
I REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DO CARROTS IMPROVE VISION? I MUST KNOW BECAUSE I ALWAYS GET PICKED ON AT SCHOOL 4 WEARING GLASSES!!!!!!!!!! >:(
Someguy | Apr 5, 2009 | Reply
Wearing glasses or contact lenses is not a big deal, but if you want to be a fighter pilot(or any pilot), like I do, it is only way you can pass tests. Even surgery won’t help you. Naturally bad eyesight and you are not qualified. That sucks, because eyesight is one of things you can’t affect to, unlike your fitness etc.
Carrots may help you if you already have lack of A vitamin. I began to eat carrots just in case
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I dont understand how Carrot Cake is so yummy, but carrots by themsleves are DISGUSTING!!
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Jessika | Jun 25, 2009 | Reply
Eww, I hate carrorts!! I’m just going eat all the other stuff it said that also improve your eyesight LOL
~Snoooppyy~ | Jun 29, 2009 | Reply
Even if carrots do not improve your eyesight, what harm can they do? I might as well go grab my self a carrot ttyl
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I started eating carrots again so , my eye sight could possible get better, so i am wondering if this is true, i read the article above and i was right .
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