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Carrot Juice Challengers (BEWARE)
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sengschick
The Bun Master
You can actually intake too much beta carotene, it will cause toxicity. Be careful.... but all the same...
The stuff we do grow this hair!
Ayeshia
New Member
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sengschick said:
You can actually intake too much beta carotene, it will cause toxicity. Be careful.... but all the same...
The stuff we do grow this hair!
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I know but its so gooooooooood
I put the rest in the freezer until I return back to my original color
sengschick said:
You can actually intake too much beta carotene, it will cause toxicity. Be careful.... but all the same...
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I know but its so gooooooooood
alliyah4eva203
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sengschick
The Bun Master
It is really good. It's the high sugar content too. I add beets to mine (and I would never go near a beet in a jar
). But they are so sweet and make the juice even better! The color is beautiful too.
Miosy
New Member
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ayeshia said:
Okay guys my lips and the palms of my hands are orange/brown color
I have betacarotene overload
. Between Friday and today I have had almost 5 liters of carrot juice (I love the way it tastes)...I dont know if you guys are drinking as much as I am but just be careful
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Oh My
I'm sittting here right now drinking some fresh carrot juice because I love the taste. Gurl, be very careful!
ayeshia said:
Okay guys my lips and the palms of my hands are orange/brown color
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Oh My
cherish
New Member
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ayeshia said:
Okay guys my lips and the palms of my hands are orange/brown color
I have betacarotene overload
. Between Friday and today I have had almost 5 liters of carrot juice (I love the way it tastes)...I dont know if you guys are drinking as much as I am but just be careful
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Yikes! I almost want to laugh, but it's not funny. I think beta carotene is toxic if you OD on it. I don't know if drinking tons of water would help. That would be my first step.
I do love jamba's orange and carrot juice.
ayeshia said:
Okay guys my lips and the palms of my hands are orange/brown color
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Yikes! I almost want to laugh, but it's not funny. I think beta carotene is toxic if you OD on it. I don't know if drinking tons of water would help. That would be my first step.
I do love jamba's orange and carrot juice.
bellydancer
New Member
i was supposed to be doing this challenge, but the only juice i like is the carrot apple juice at the health food store. It's like a pint for $3 tho! I don't have money for that. It takes like apple with a hint of carrot and it's 100% juice. I think i might start trying to make my own blend somehow. I don't like carrot juice straight tho.
Isis
New Member
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ayeshia said:
Okay guys my lips and the palms of my hands are orange/brown color
I have betacarotene overload
. Between Friday and today I have had almost 5 liters of carrot juice (I love the way it tastes)...I dont know if you guys are drinking as much as I am but just be careful
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5 liters!
This happened to me before Ayeshia! I loved the taste so much I drank glass after glass
until I turned orange! I've learned it is never toxic because the vitamin A in carrot juice converts into betacarotene. The orange color is not from the betacarotene but from the liver secreting toxic stuff, like it always does. There's info on the Internet about this too. So you're ok. No harm done. It will take a few days for the orange/brown to disappear which means no more carrot juice until it's gone (if you want the color gone).
ayeshia said:
Okay guys my lips and the palms of my hands are orange/brown color
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5 liters!
This happened to me before Ayeshia! I loved the taste so much I drank glass after glass
I know that it is toxic when you overdose in pill form, but carrot juice isn't only made up of vit a, it has other things in it too. i also read as Isis did that the orange color is a sign of the liver detoxifying, but didn't mean your body was in physical danger.
i can't drink straight carrot juice, so i juice beets, apples, celery, parsley & carrots, but i put in alot of carrots & juice enough for a week, 8 oz a day.
i can't drink straight carrot juice, so i juice beets, apples, celery, parsley & carrots, but i put in alot of carrots & juice enough for a week, 8 oz a day.
cherish
New Member
Flawed assumptions
Dr. Xiang-Dong Wang, associate professor of nutrition at Tufts and a researcher at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA), explains that even scientists were quick to jump on the beta-carotene band wagon. But they skipped a vital step in the testing of most standard medications—appropriate and extensive animal testing. “Beta-carotene was considered a beneficial substance that was benign even in high doses,” he says. “These assumptions were based on some very preliminary work with rats, yet these studies were inherently flawed. Rats do not absorb beta-carotene the way humans do, nor do they store it in adipose (fat) and lung tissue.”
Scientists also looked at a Harvard study completed in the late 1970s that seemed to indicate high doses of beta-carotene were not toxic. About 133 patients with a non-malignant skin disease were given an extremely high dose of beta-carotene to treat the condition. There were no toxic effects, and the treatment was found to be somewhat effective.
The study was used to justify huge human intervention trials that lasted up to six years.
When it finally became apparent that study subjects actually got cancer at higher rates than those who did not receive beta-carotene, all studies with beta-carotene were immediately stopped.
taken from:
http://nutrition.tufts.edu/magazine/2000spring/wang.html
By contrast, beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, was considered innocuous until recently, when it was found to also interact with ethanol, which interferes with its conversion to retinol. Furthermore, the combination of beta-carotene with ethanol results in hepatotoxicity.
taken from:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=99285730
This is from a study done on ferrets... I'm assuming anyone megadosing is a non-smoker:
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1200/8_155/54062673/p1/article.jhtml
mermaid
Well-Known Member
This happened to my oldest son when he was a baby (84). His favorite baby foods were carrots and squash, then he started to turn an orange-y yellow color. I thought it was jaundice and off to the doc we went. Doctor asked if he ate a lot of yellow veggies, and that was the problem! Weird, but I cut him back on the yellows!
Miosy
New Member
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mermaid said:
This happened to my oldest son when he was a baby (84). His favorite baby foods were carrots and squash, then he started to turn an orange-y yellow color. I thought it was jaundice and off to the doc we went. Doctor asked if he ate a lot of yellow veggies, and that was the problem! Weird, but I cut him back on the yellows!
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Wow, this is good to know. Just in case I turn organge too
Thnxs for posting!
mermaid said:
This happened to my oldest son when he was a baby (84). His favorite baby foods were carrots and squash, then he started to turn an orange-y yellow color. I thought it was jaundice and off to the doc we went. Doctor asked if he ate a lot of yellow veggies, and that was the problem! Weird, but I cut him back on the yellows!
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Wow, this is good to know. Just in case I turn organge too
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