Carrots Improve Your Eyesight – Myth or Fact
One of the most common tricks that parents use to encourage or trick their kids to eat vegetables is to amplify the ‘good’ that a particular vegetable can provide. The common ones include eating spinach for strength, broccoli to make you smarter, drinking milk will make you taller, etc.
But one of the oldest and most popular sayings remains – ‘Eat carrots to get excellent eyesight’. Tricking younger kids may be simpler, but there may come a time when they will start questioning the authenticity of such claims.
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Dr. Azhar I. Salahuddin is an ophthalmologist and is fellowship-trained in cornea, external diseases, and refractive surgery. Dr. Salahuddin has been performing cataract surgery for over 19 years and specializes ocular reconstruction, corneal transplantation surgery as well as vision correction through a variety of intraocular lenses. Dr. Salahuddin is board-certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and was trained at Boston University.