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Carrots' Link To Night Vision Boost Termed As "Greatest Food Myth"
Paul Beaumont has said that eating carrots does more harm to you than good, as beta carotene rich food can actually increase the risk of blindness.
Beaumont, who has been studying human retinas since 1976, has said that the carrot myth, started in World War II, is a "complete fabrication".
"When the English ... were flying at night they used radar but the Germans didn't know that radar existed," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Beaumont as saying from his Sydney clinic.
He added: "The English certainly didn't want them to know so they put out a myth saying they were feeding their pilots carrots to improve their night vision and that's why they could fly and see things at night. I think that is the greatest food myth".
Beaumont is the director of the Macular Degeneration (MD) Foundation, which has just released a cookbook, Eating for Eye Health - outlining the connection between what we eat and our eyesight.
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