For Your Eyes Only
by Marisa Brook from Damn Interesting on (#57VD5)
In the midst of World War II, the British Air Ministry began publicly extolling the virtues of carrot-eating. The vitamin A from these vegetables was improving pilots' eyesight considerably, the ministry claimed, allowing flyers to spot enemy planes from greater distances and at night. Newspapers regurgitated these reports of strategic root vegetable consumption, and indeed, [...]