What do you think?

[Ohbehave007]

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I traded the corn for carrots and since I haven't had any cravings in 2 days (YAY) I let my brother put a little in our dinner (one or two bites on my plate) I love carrots so it was nice.

Did you know that if you eat to many carrots you will turn orange? My mother didn't either until I turned orange when I was 7 . The doctor said to cut out the carrots until i was a normal color again .

I'm still not sure what was creating my cravings but maybe just seeing everything around me like it has been lately (my brother is a pig...) triggered something. I don't know but I am feeling much better (and my house is a lot cleaner ).

[not2late]

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I traded the corn for carrots and since I haven't had any cravings in 2 days (YAY) I let my brother put a little in our dinner (one or two bites on my plate) I love carrots so it was nice.

Did you know that if you eat to many carrots you will turn orange? My mother didn't either until I turned orange when I was 7 . The doctor said to cut out the carrots until i was a normal color again .

I'm still not sure what was creating my cravings but maybe just seeing everything around me like it has been lately (my brother is a pig...) triggered something. I don't know but I am feeling much better (and my house is a lot cleaner ).

Good for you! Now you know that corn is a problem food, so if you choose to eat it in the future, you will know that you will get cravings and you can make plans to combat those cravings.

A food I have problems with is pineapple. I can eat it, lose weight while eating it, but I get this "feeling" of dissatisfaction (not the best way to describe it but I can't describe it any other way) about my meals.

[Elizellen]

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Did you know that if you eat to many carrots you will turn orange? My mother didn't either until I turned orange when I was 7 . The doctor said to cut out the carrots until i was a normal color again .

My sister had a similar experience many years ago.
Luckily nothing like this gentleman experienced in the 1970's

Like many foods eaten in excess, carrots can produce unhealthy results too. Carotene, the pigment that gives carrots and other yellow fruits and vegetables their colour, can cause jaundice when consumed in excessive quantities. Some people who have imbibed large quantities of carrot juice in a relatively short time developed a yellow hue to their skin.
Though the yellowing of the skin from indulging in a heavy dose of carrots is seldom serious and will disappear in a few days, continued carrot gorging can cause medical problems. In 1974 one unfortunate English health advocate named Basil Brown consumed 10 gallons of carrot juice and took 10,000 times the recommended RDA of vitamin A in a period of 10 days. Those 10 days were the unfortunate man's undoing, his skin turned bright yellow and he died of severe liver damage.

Extract from "The Times" - Times 15 February 1974

Carrot juice diet killed scientist
A health food addict who had been drinking up to eight pints of carrot juice a day was bright yellow when he died, an inquest at Croydon. Surrey, was told yesterday. Dr John Fabricius said he believed Mr Basil Brown' aged 48, a scientific adviser, had died of vitamin A poisoning.
Mrs Brenda Brown, of Hayes Lane, Kenley, the dead man's wife, told Dr Mary McHugh, the coroner, that she had prepared the carrot juice. "Nobody prescribed it. He just thought it was the right way to eat. He also took vitamin A tablets."
A typical day's diet for her husband was: breakfast, carrot juice and fruit ; midday, more carrot Juice and fruit; evening meal, eggs, tomatoes, cheese. Dr J. Fabricius, the family's doctor, told the coroner that he had warned Mr Brown against his addiction to vitamin A. He had warned Mr Brown to stop taking vitamin A and had later sent him to a specialist who also warned him.
Mr Brown had been '"an intelligent man but he had a very low opinion of doctors ". Dr David Haler, a pathologist, said that Mr Brown was bright yellow when he died. Vitamin A poisoning, like alcoholic poisoning, produced cirrhosis of the liver. The inquest found that Mr Brown had died from carrot juice addiction.

[not2late]

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Lesson: eat in moderation.

[atkinsgal08]

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>>I tried plantain the other day as a starchy vegetables.>>

Not suggesting you shouldn't have had one, but isn't plantain a fruit?

Plantain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[not2late]

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>>I tried plantain the other day as a starchy vegetables.>>

Not suggesting you shouldn't have had one, but isn't plantain a fruit?

Plantain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Botanically it's a fruit. But it's used as a starchy veggie in stews or as a "dessert" in Carribbean and Southeast Asian cuisines. The riper the plaintain gets the sweeter it becomes. So the use is really based upon it's sugar content.

It's sort of like our friend the tomato. Botanically, he's a fruit. Per a US Supreme Court Ruling, he's a vegetable because, the court reasoned, the tomato is used like a vegetable rather than a fruit. Yet, I've found dessert-type recipes using tomatoes dating to the 1840s, particularly tomato mince meat and tomato figs (tomatoes lightly stewed in a sugar syrup, then dried until they resemble figs.) OTOH, our friend the rhubarb is a botanically a vegetable (a stem), but like the tomato, he is legally a fruit (per US Custom's Court ruling) because he is used as a fruit (pies, jams, jellies, etc.) rather than as a vegetable.

But corn is a grain. Historically the word "corn" was used as a generic term for any grain (derived from the Greek "core" meaning "grain"). Hence the term "barleycorn" for barley. What we call "corn" today, was orginally called "Indian corn" by the English settlers in the American colonies, in order to distinguish it from other grains. And cornmeal was called "Indian meal". Eventually the word "Indian" was dropped, and now the grain is simply called "corn" in the US. So if you read any 17-early 19th century American cookbooks and you see the words "Indian corn" or "Indian meal", you'll know it's corn and cornmeal.