Day fifteen - February 28, 2001

8:35pm Will just said I look like I'm from Prineville, the nearest imbread town. Thanks, Will.

Total carrots consumed:

105

...and 60 glasses carrot juice.

your hot, carrots are cool but they dont make you see good like everyone
said. Orange is cool, but carrots drive me insane. Your a tough girl eatin
all them carrots, i love you.

I'm anemic, you see, and when I don't have my iron pills, my body freaks out. I get dizzy spells, headaches, nosebleeds, you name it. I've been pretty much bed ridden all day. Jon is going to bring them home for me after work.

I'm a sickly wuss.

Today will be our first band practice. Rock and roll, baby. I won't really be doing anything for this one, just watching. I still have a sore throat left over from my cold anyway.

5:51pm I'm sitting here listening to the two of three other band members play their pretty songs. Will is the lead guitarist and Simon, an EMT is the drummer. They're both very talented. I'm lucky to be singing for them.

We're supposed to be playing on Saturday for our friend's birthday party. I hope I can learn the songs that quickly. I hope I'm well enough to do it too. I wrote a song today. It rocks.

9:22pm I didn't end up eating much today. I'll pick it back up when I'm well.

Total carrots consumed:

107

...and 62 glasses carrot juice.

I ate a freakload of carrots today while we played the game Risk. I did well for my first time, probably because I was wearing my sailor outfit. I had carrots in ice cream for the first time. That was gross. I don't eat alot of ice cream anyway. Too much dairy hurts my belly.

Total carrots consumed:

117

...and 68 glasses carrot juice.

I just have one question. Wouldn't it have been much easier to just take pooloads of Beta Caotene pills with an otherwise regular diet?

"It has been discovered that rogue carrots from outer space are planning to take over Britain and turn it into a denim factory..." MORE

Carrot..humor.

Flaming Carrot!

And what the freak do you suppose this is all about?

Anyway,

We hosted a birthday party for our friend Laura at the house. It was a good party and there was yummy guacamole for me to dip my carrots in. Stupid carrots. I hate carrots. Laura was also kind enough to bring me some carrot mush soup. Marvelous. It was actually really good.

A girl at the party came up to me and said "I vote not to see your poo". I laughed a hearty orange laugh.

Here's an interesting Japanese site called Carrot Lunch. I'm not sure exactly what it's supposed to be about, but it's Japanese! Yay! I liked the Satan Voice.

Jon came up with a really good idea for the end of the project. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but believe me, a grand finale it shall be. I think he really just wants to humiliate me.

Look! If you're a dork, you can download the official Carrot Top Screen Saver!

send me mail, slackers!

Total carrots consumed:

129

...and 74 glasses carrot juice.

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Total carrots consumed:

140

...and 82 glasses carrot juice.

3:14 pm I just want to let you all know how much I am suffering right now. I hate carrots, and I never want to see one again. And it is Cadbury Egg season! Oh, my love! I must refrain from your sweet allure! I wait for this every year. The experiment could not have come at a worse time. If only I'd started earlier! Or not at all! Yes, that would have been better. Alas, I am stuck.

7:08 pm I interviewed an optomitrist's assistant today. I'll post it tomorrow. It was a good interview. I also sent out an email interview to my mom, RN. Betcha can't wait!

Total carrots consumed:

152

...and 88 glasses carrot juice.

The results are in for week three!

skin color changes from day one to day twenty-one.

The following is an email interview I conducted with my mom, RN.

Is it just a wives tale that one can turn orange by eating an enormous amount of carrots or is this an actual medical phenomenon?

Yes, or yellow. Not banana yellow though, more of an orange-yellow or
yellow-orange. Most likely orange-yellow, or even orangish-yellow to
be more exact. Golden.

In your opinion, what causes this?

Carrot slush is picked up from the digestive system by the liver and is
used to make glycogen for cellular metabolism. The extra carotene isn't
needed and needs to be gotten rid of, so, it is usually dumped back into the disgestive system along with the rest of the chyme. When there is an
overwhealming amount, the liver will go to another elimination system,
the skin. So, it gives the extra carotene to the skin for elimination
purposes. The carotene can't leave the skin very fast because cellular turnover  is slow, so much of it sits in the skin for a time, turning the skin GOLDENISH.

Would one's skin return to it's original color?

Yes, as the skin cells containing the extra carotene fall off all
around the place, your color will return to normal, and in your case, porcelein color. The police could then collect these discarded skin cells and match them up to your picture on your web site, should the occassion call for it.

How long do you think it would take?

Couple o' weeks, month perhaps.

What other foods are high in carotene? Would they have the same effect?

Yes, apparently the squashes will do the same thing, the orange ones, not
the yellow ones.

In your opinion, what would the posistive and negative effects of maintaining a diet consisting of 90% carrots for one month?


I believe you have to maintain a long time diet high in Vitamin A for
good night vision. Carrots would help but would have to be eaten
consistently and over a long period of time and we all know that the second this experiment is over that you will never eat another carrot again as long as you live. I can only comment on the mental health aspect of long term carrot consumption by reading your web-site and my initial opinion is
that it probably isn't such a good idea, sanity wise. As far as internal
organs are concerned, your liver probably will survive this and I imagine that your colon is a happy happy colon by now and has been somewhat more active than usual.

Have you ever heard of someone maintaining this particular type of diet for a month, and would you consider it safe?

You know, you are the only one I know who has done this deliberately,
although I am sure there are others. I think that most of us don't #1
want to turn orange, #2 want consume so many carrots #3 disrupt our lives
for the entertainment of people we don't even know just to make them
laugh--those people usually become comedians or entertainers in some venue. But not you, no you have to be a pioneer. An orange pioneer. Kimarooni. It's probably safe enough for one month. I heard of a man who was a prisoner for months and was given only boiled eggs the entire time. Not only was he remarkably
healthy, but his cholesterol was actually much lower than before. Perhaps
your next experience could include hard boiled eggs.

Have you seen an adult who has physically turned orange from over consumption of carotene?

No, only babies. I've seen adults turn yellow from liver disease, but
it's
a yucky baby poop color yellow, you wouldn't like it.

Do you think it's possible that I could develop any sort of super human powers through this experiment, and if so, what powers?

I think from this question that perhaps you are taking too seriously
some of your e-mail from fans of your site. Try to keep in mind that they, and you, are not ever ever ever going to develop super human powers of any kind, for any reason, and maybe y'all ought to put down the comic books once in awhile and read something non-fictional. Just to keep one tiny foot in reality land. It won't hurt you, really.

Why is my poo orange?

Because your liver is dumping the extra, not needed carotene into your
colon. It does this a lot. If it didn't, we would all be the size of
the grand canyon by now. The body will only keep a small amount of needed energy to use now and store for later. If God hadn't made us this way, He would have had to give us much less gravity in order for us to roll around the Earth easily in a more rotund condition.

Have you ever had orange poo? if so, why?

Well my darlin' little Kimooska, the last time you interviewed me I
answered all your questions not realizing that it was going to be published on your web-site. This time I am going to be more cautious for these personal questions and take my cue from our famous ex-president and tell y'all that,"I have no recollection of that".

Was I an ugly baby?

Oh honey, you were and still are the cutest little baby in the whole
world. Just darling. Maybe a wee bit reddish at first. But there has never
been a cuter baby than you. I should send you some baby pictures to put on
your site, people cannot believe how beautiful you were as a baby/ and still are a most beautiful and enchanting lady now. Okay, so the first month you were sorta scrawny, but that was a long time ago.

Total carrots consumed:

164

...and 95 glasses carrot juice.