thepianistfroggollum ( @thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ) English40•9 months agoPeople are fucking stupid, but I guess it’s good that they’re eating vegetables.
Thelsim ( @Thelsim@beehaw.org ) 27•9 months agoCan they invent a few more of these kinds of Tik Tok trends?
The kind where they’re tricked into doing something healthy and harmless? I imagine an army of troll nutritionists thinking up new challenges :)edited because Thelsim doesn’t proofread
Afghaniscran ( @Afghaniscran@feddit.uk ) 6•9 months agoI think getting healthy and harmless trends from tiktok that make people stand out by making them glow orange is also a nice touch, that way it’s easier to avoid people that fall for tiktok trends.
protist ( @protist@mander.xyz ) English21•9 months agoAny extra beta-carotene is then either stored in the liver and fat tissue, excreted through poo, or removed via sweat glands in the outer layer of the skin. This is when the orange skin “tan” can happen. In medicine, this is called carotenoderma.
Carotenoderma gives your skin a yellow/orange pigment that is not the same colour you’d turn from a sun tan. It is concentrated in the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet and smile lines near the nose.
Storksforlegs ( @storksforlegs@beehaw.org ) English13•9 months agoThis is harmless and goofy, but it goes to show how easily something so stupid can take hold and enter the conversation.
🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English11•9 months agoNobody tell them that carrots are good for their eyes.
MalReynolds ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English11•9 months agoBecause everyone knows about onboard radar now…
Yozul ( @yozul@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months agoWell, they can’t give you superhuman night vision, but a shortage of vitamin A is actually bad for your eyes, and carrots are a good source of it.
MalReynolds ( @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ) English4•9 months agoYeah, that’s in the link, just an interesting historical on the origin of the carrot/eyesight thing.
jarfil ( @jarfil@beehaw.org ) 11•9 months agoWait… does that mean, Trump has been an ad for Big Carrot all this time!? /s
bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 8•9 months agoI remember there was a Magic School Bus episode when I was a kid about how eating too many carrots would turn your skin orange. Never occurred to me that that’s also the color used for fake tans
brsrklf ( @brsrklf@jlai.lu ) 8•9 months agoexperts suggest you would need to eat at least ten carrots per day, for at least a few weeks, for colour changes to occur. Most people would find this carrot intake challenging.
Yeah, I’d say so. One carrot is already an almost insurmountable challenge to me 🤢
tburkhol ( @tburkhol@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months ago10 carrots is something like 1.5-2 pounds/0.75-1 kg. I can eat a good bit of carrot-ginger soup, but a quart of soup every day for weeks? I think I’d have other health effects before I started glowing orange.
brsrklf ( @brsrklf@jlai.lu ) 2•9 months agoI’m actually surprised it takes so much, because where does that orange tan story comes from?
I’ve heard it way before the tiktok fad, and it seems to have a base in science, but were there really people who ate that much carotene?
blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 6•9 months agoMy (adult) brother did. He ate ~2lb of carrots daily for months.
We thought he had jaundice and was having liver failure until my mom asked him about his diet and we realized he was orange, not yellow.
Went from really scary to really funny pretty quickly.
brsrklf ( @brsrklf@jlai.lu ) 2•9 months agoWow, regarding that “challenging” carrot in-take, I guess your bro’s among these people that gladly rise up to the challenge 😁
Chuymatt ( @Chuymatt@artemis.camp ) 3•9 months agoGot a kid in clinic, about 10 months old at the time, and they gorged on carrot baby food. They are orange still. It has been 3 months.
june 🌿 ( @junezephier@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•9 months agoSmh some people never watched the magic school bus and it shows
teri ( @teri@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•9 months agoAccording to the experience of a friend, eating 1kg carrots a day makes your skin go slightly orange. You’ll likely notice only in places where the skin is thin and white. For example around your knuckles when you form your hand into a fist.