Day One - February 14, 2001

We purchased a blender for this experiment last night so I can make my own carrot juice. It works rather well, although liquified carrots and water makes for a very bland drink. I think I'll add pinneapple juice or OJ next time.

1:06pm - I'm at work. I have two decent sized carrots as my sack lunch along with an Arizona bottle I've filled with carrot juice.

4:30pm - I'm sick of carrots.

I've made a little dramatization for the project.

8:00pm Picture time. This is a little bit humiliating, but it's for a good cause. That, and it gives me a chance to show off my new underoos.

  Result photos will be taken every wednesday.

8:25 It's time for dinner. It's what I've been waiting for all day. Mmmmm.

Tonight I will have a lovely carrot stir fry with squash, which is also very high in carotene, and rice with a glass of carrot juice sweetened with pinneapple. I watched Cecil B Demented with dinner. A very entertaining movie.

If you have any recipes that consist mostly of carrots, email me and if I use it, I'll post it. I'll probably run out of ideas after day four or so.

It will be interesting to see how my poos turn out during this experiment. I'll be sure to let you know.

Carrots consumed:

6

4 raw, 2 stir fried

4 glasses carrot juice.

12:04pm I'm sure you'd rather not hear about this, but my poo is weird. It didn't stick together very well, that's for sure. Too many raw carrots maybe. And it was slightly orange. I stared at it for about thirty seconds before I sent it to the rats. Ew. Poor rats.

Okay, so I went to work today and totally forgot to eat. I did, however have a glas of nummy carrot - pinneapple juice with pulp.

11:00pm I ended up working pretty late tonight. I came home and ate a three carrot sautee with rice and loads of butter and two full glasses of carrot juice just before midnight.

These past two days have been the first time in awhile when I've actually eaten butter with my meals for two consecutive days. I am making sure, though to eat some fat.

I don't care what Jenny Craig says - fat is important. It makes my hair shiny! Well, I guess the fact that I only wash it once a week helps it retain that natural sheene.

TJ Soup Recipe sent by my mom

2 cups tomato juice or V8

1 cup water

4 teaspoons or 4 cubes vegetable broth

1 small onion finely chopped

1 tbsp parsley flakes

1/4 tsp worchestershire sauce

1 clove garlic

1/4 tsp pepper

2 cups of each of following vegetables..... chopped celery sliced carrots green beans shredded cabbage fresh diced tomatos sliced mushrooms green peppers and if you want..... diced potatos legumes 3-4 ounces of cooked fish, meat, poultry, tofu mix ingredients except veg's

in a large pan, bring to a boil, them simmer.

add measured amount of vegies and cook slowly until vegies are done.

warning.......this soup if it's all you eat will make you lose weight. i'm gonna make me some ~mom

Carotene Story by JD

Man a starts in Africa.  Man lives in the savannahs and is bombarded by harsh warm sunlight everyday.  Thus, he has developed melanin in his skin to filter out UV rays.   (Reason: UV sunlight is converted into vitamin D by special cells in your skin.   Vitamin D can be poisonous in high quantities because it is not water soluble.... you don't pee it out... thus, it is important to only manufacture so much vitamin D... that's why we tan.)  Melanin is produced from meat and proteins (probably why you are so pale.)

Later, man walks on up to Europe.  Europe has seasons.  Because of this, man begins to lose some melanin.  Since the sun has low periods of season (winter) the body begins to run short on vitamin D.  So to counter this, the body evolves a lack of melanin so that the skin gets more sunlight and produces more vitamin D.  But it still tans when necessary.  Thus, you get Caucasian races of Europe.

Well, as they go further north, into areas where it is cold most of the year, they lose almost all their melanin.  Plus, since they are bundled up in hides and stuff, their body needed a method to catch as much sun as possible.  So evolution grew the exposed parts (i.e.- breathe holes) to be big photo-receptors... large Scandinavian noses!

Ok, so then man starts to move East.  Those that settle in the south... India and China are near the ocean.  They learn to fish.  Fish has lots of Vitamin D!   They need to develop more pigment to block out sun!  But, Fish is very low in melanin type proteins... so instead the body uses carotene.  The mixture of melanin and carotene produces a yellowish tone.  Asian races!

The Europeans who migrated across the Russian plains gradually lost almost all their melanin.  When they crossed over into America (via the land bridge) they settled near the water and also began to eat fish... that's where Eskimo skin tones come from.   But when the people migrated south into America, the vegetation there (especially maize) drastically increased the carotene dependency, thus yielding a much redder skin tone.  Native Americans.  They also believe the further lack of melanin stems from the Ice ages... since glaciers covered most of the great plains at that time.

There is one final step that accounts for the re-introduction of melanin in the brown people of central America... but I forget how that works.

I hope I have enlightened you.

JD
Sinazucar
www.mused.com

I'm sure you were all wondering where I was yesterday. I couldn't get online to post today's update due to a local transformer or something crashing. Sorry about that.

I did, however, do a little bit of research the other day to tide some of you nerdy or concerned types for awhile.

Here are a few Carrot facts, according to the USDA Vegetable Crops Research Unit:

• Carrots provide 30% of the vitamin A in the US diet.
• Vitamin A is synthesized in the human metabolism by the breakdown of carotenes, the orange pigments in carrot roots. Vitamin A itself occurs in meat, liver, eggs, milk, and other animal products.
• Over-consumption of vitamin A can be toxic to humans but over-consumption of carotenes is never toxic since carotene breakdown is well-controlled. Over-consumption of carotenes or carrots can give the skin an orange tone but this is not harmful. SO EVERYONE STOP TELLING ME HOW I'M GOING TO GIVE MYSELF LIVER DAMAGE ALREADY!
• Vitamin A deficiency is a significant world problem, especially in the developing world. The magnitude of human suffering from Vitamin A deficiency is comparable to that of protein deficiency and second only to caloric deficiency.
• One crop of high-carotene carrots (twice the US carotene content) on one square meter of land produces enough carotene to provide an adult with all the vitamin A needed in a year.

Total carrots consumed: 14 ...and 11 glasses carrot juice.

Your Mom's recipe sound's good but Worcestershire sauce usually contains anchovies or
other  fish so veggies beware!  You might want to use soy sauce instead! ~Bob

Kimmy, are you still there, or are you vegetating?

hahahahahahaha ~mom

3:06pm I just had the yummiest carrot sandwich. Extra mayo. Okay, mostly mayo, but I put and entire carrot in it so back off. I also had a three steamed carrots today.

I didn't especially like carrots when I began this project. This adds challenge.

10:00pm It's poker night at the house. Every Saturday night people come over and play for nickles, dimes and quarters and take all of my money.

Nick, our in house pizza delivery boy has brought a pizza. Dang. I gave in and ate a piece of pizza, but made sure to add an entire carrot as the topping. It was gross.

Really Late - I wiped the table with those suckers. Oh yes. I came out around $20 ahead tonight. Hehehe... It must be my carotene. Kim in da hizouse.

I've made a record for carrots consumed in a single day. Seven.

No letters today. Maybe becuase I updated late. err.

Total carrots consumed:

21

...and 15 glasses carrot juice.

I'm not feeling starved or anything. I'm actually eating more now that I have a motive.

Here are a few carrot and bunny related sites:

However, I am going to continue as promised. I would not let you, my viewers, or the scientific community down. Despite my many downfalls, I am a dedicated person. The experiment will continue.

8:30pm I ate a bag of baby carrots with some ranchy sauce. They were so nummy. They seem much sweeter and juicier by far. I am going to count four baby carrots as one full carrot so I don't throw the daily tally off.

9:56pm Jon thinks that it would excite you to see a photograph of my orange poo. I think he is wrong. I think no one wants to see my poo, or anyone else's for that matter. I will make a deal with you, though. If I get an email from at least thirty of you by the end of this project telling me you'd like to see my poo, I will post a photo. Man, that's gross. You people are sick!

I see no dramatic change in skin tone yet, but it's only been 6 days. Tomorrow will be picture day, marking the end of week one, so we'll see then.

Total carrots consumed:

33

...and 18 glasses carrot juice.

You know if I wasn't so sure you liked torturing yourself.... I would
have
suggested taking a good amount of beta carotene supplements... Would
turn
you orange without having to suffer through the carrots.

Oh well, the bunny ears are cute...

DragKing
-------------------------
www.hatethemainstream.com
-------------------------

Your site is very interesting and I will make sure and check back often to see how your project is going.

A tasty thing to do with your carrots is to dip them in peanut butter. Peanuts also have lots of protein in them.

Rachel : )

Hey, Carrots are good, Turning orange is even better. Eat carrot cake.
I'm
sure that you can make it extra carroty!!! Tey steaming cauliflower,
broccoli and carrots. Salt and eat. It's probably healthy to eat
something
besides carrots once in a while. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm......................
Jason

I'm going to make a new page for next week, so I don't clutter this one up too much. I have really been enjoying the letters. Keep them coming, and pleasee don't feel obligated to vote to see my poo.

Total carrots consumed:

40

...and 21 glasses carrot juice.

Hey Kim, You poor thing, I hate to see you suffer, especially at the hands of the evil carrot empire. I'm torn about the poo thing though, a twisted part of me wants to see it, but the very thought disturbs me ever so much. Chris

let us see your orange poos..... ewwww
before the rats get them.


www.sensibleerection.com