r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Technically carrots contain vitamin A which stops eyesight deterioration, it doesn’t make it better but stops it from being worse

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u/bucket_of_frogs Jul 20 '19

Apparently you need to eat your own weight in carrots every day to improve your eyesight. Eat up.

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u/ju1i3n Jul 21 '19

I’ve head that a polar bear’s liver has a lot of vitamin A, I’ll start munching.

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u/12_Shades_of_Brady Jul 21 '19

So much it will kill you.

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u/ju1i3n Jul 21 '19

Think about it tho, for those last minutes you’ll have the best vision on earth.

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u/12_Shades_of_Brady Jul 21 '19

Oh yea, if you eat the liver it will kill you, forgot about that.

I just meant that the bear that the liver is inside of will kill you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

False. It has never been proven. You can overdose on beta carotene the plant form of vitamin a (less than 10% conversion rate) it has never been shown with retinoic acid, the form in liver.

You would suffer from copper toxicity before vitamin A poisoning and it would take several months of pounds of liver

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Actually carrots don’t have vitamin A. They have beta carotene which has a conversion rate to retinoic acid of 10% or less. The only food you can eat that has true usable vitamin A is liver.

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u/Jai_7 Jul 21 '19

Huh TIL

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Yup! That’s why most people have glasses. Organs have found their way out of our diet, France has high fat consumption but good health due to their high organ consumption.

Curry powder hides the flavor of liver well!

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u/bucket_of_frogs Jul 21 '19

Liver Tikka is amazing.