Do carrots turn your skin orange

Can eating too many carrots actually turn your skin orange??

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I’m not a doctor or anything of the sort, but it does.(even though I haven’t seen it hapen)But would be funny to see.

Can carrots really turn your skin orange?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070515132849AAbqPAd&show=7

Well, in an adult it would take a lot, and I mean a LOT, over an extended period of time, but this happens pretty often with babies if parents feed them lots of carrots, sweet potatoes, etcetera. Then you panic because it looks like jaundic…

Is it true eating enough carrots will turn your skin orange??

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060918154112AAAodz9

Apparently it is. Supposedly it happened to GMTV newsreader Penny Smith, although she’s such an attention seeker she maybe just said that to get attention. Mariella Frostrup did once complain though, that she’d to carry the extra weight o…

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Can carrots really turn your skin orange?

Q: I’ve been eating a lot of carrots lately. I usually carry a bag of carrot sticks in my purse for when I get hungry. Beats buying the candy bar. My friend told me that carrots turn your skin orange. I sorta don’t believe her but I was just wondering if it was trueI’m eating like a sandwich bag size ziploc bag full of baby carrots everyday.

A: LOL Yes they do, but you have to eat a lot of them. I doubt if a bag that size will do it, though. It could over time. I turned orange for a while, I was juicing two to three pounds of carrots a day and by the end of two weeks I was a very nice shade of orange. Took about a month to go away. LOL Really got overdosed on the carotene,

Can eating a lot of carrots turn your skin orange?

Q: Lets say you only eat carrots and carrot juice for a year, would you turn orange?

A: yes, indeed!

If you eat a lot of carrots will your skin turn orange?

Q: My brother said his friend’s grandma had orange skin because she ate a lot of carrots, but i dont know if its true

A: carotenemia: excess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color.There are 3 main mechanisms involved in carotenemia: 1. excessive dietary intake of carotenoids2. increased serum lipids3. decreased metabolism of carotenoids. The most common reported cause of carotenemia is increased intake, either through increased dietary foods or nutritional supplements. This change takes approximately 4 to 7 weeks to be recognized clinically.