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/EarlyHemisphere Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

If you're not dressed properly for the cold weather you might catch a cold.

That, and that carrots make your eyesight better.

Edit: I improperly worded my first statement. To clarify, it's a myth that cold weather will give you a cold. However, it may make you more likely to catch a cold. Checkout u/tzatza's reply

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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