Do Carrots Really Help Your Vision?
The orange vegetable helps us see — but that's different from improving our vision. That said, carrots are part of a diet designed for eye health.
Many lifelong carrot eaters feel a little betrayed.
"There is no way [carrots] affect eyesight," says Silvio Fontecchio, a project manager at a print shop in Tallahassee, Fla., whose parents told him when he was young that munching the orange veggie would help his eyes. "As a kid, my go-to snack was carrots and ranch [dressing], and I have really bad nearsighted vision."
For some, disillusion comes even earlier: When Rozalynn Goodwin, a health care executive in Columbia, S.C., told her 6-year-old
