Day twenty-two - March 7, 2001

Allen of Classic Gameroom and Pacland.cc sent me the link to this hillarious game, Psycho Bondage Bunnies. You'll need shockwave to view it.

Total carrots consumed:

187

...and 110 glasses carrot juice.

Total carrots consumed:

193

...and 113 glasses carrot juice.

Dear Expert:

I eat lots of raw carrots and was recently told that they turn into sugar when digested. Is that true?

Answer:

Uninformed comments like this give a wonderful vegetable like carrots a bad rap. Vegetables, fruits, starches, sweets and dairy products all contain carbohydrates in varying quantities. Foods also contain difference forms of carbohydrate, such as lactose, maltose, sucrose and fructose. When digested, all these forms are converted to glucose, or blood sugar, which is the fuel every cell in your body uses for energy. So, all fruits and vegetables "turn into sugar."
Now, there happen to be about 7 grams of carbohydrate in one raw carrot. In comparison, a half-cup of corn has 21 grams, a half-cup of green beans has 4.5 grams, and a half-cup of lettuce has .7 grams. Each gram of carbohydrate provides 4 calories. These vegetables contain varying amounts of water, which determines how much space the food has left for carbohydrate.

Carrots are denser than green beans or lettuce, so they have more calories. Carrots have lots of fiber, beta-carotene and potassium -- all of which are very healthful. Carrots are allowed on diabetic diets. Take a look at a doughnut's carbohydrate content, and then try to find some beneficial nutrients. Enjoy your carrots!

Sharon

Did you like how I formatted the color of that text to look like a carrot? Heh? HEH?

You guys, I need more letters. I stop feeling loved when I stop getting letters. Write me and tell me I'm spiffy.. or something.

Total carrots consumed:

200

...and 117 glasses carrot juice.

Jon and I bleached about 1/3 of my hair last night. Three applications turned it to a nice brassy blonde.

Tonight we're going to dye the bleached out part green for the upcoming super secret grand finale of The Carotene Experiment.

I really like my hair this way. It's kind of white trash rocker girl looking, and looks good with my new cowboy hat which I'm going to rockabilly out. YEEHAW!

Total carrots consumed:

205

...and 120 glasses carrot juice.

Hi
        congratulations on your mad scheme, and your dedication in seeing it through.

        When our daughter was 15 months old, all she wanted to eat was carrots and potatoes. She liked Sweet Potatoes best. So her diet was limited to milk and food with lots of beta-carotene.

        In the pictures of her from that time, she has an orange nose. And a fairly orangey face.

        Stick with it! You will eventually become a funny colour.

        I can confirm that the poop is also a funny colour, so I vote against seeing it, although it was brave of you to offer..

        Once she got back to eating a wider range of food, she stopped being orange. The same will happen to you.

        good luck!

Tom

I just wanted to let you know that I spent about an hour on your site tonight just facinated by this carrot experiment :)
I've been thinking about running an experiment of my own, and you have inspired me to do it now (I will of course credit you and your site for this inspiration :) I'm going to go as many days as I can without jerking off.
I know that sounds easier than your carotene experiment, but not really for me, because I'm a pervert :)
Well, not a full blown perv, but certainly a horny fuck.
Anyhow... your site is great, keep up the good work!!

Take care,

JOE

joerogan.net

I left the green dye in my hair overnight and it turned out really yummy looking. I'll post some pictures tomorrow so you can see. It's rockstar-a-riffic and very carrot-o-liscious. Mmmmmm

Well, I know what i'm going to eat when this is all over. A big fat waffle with strawberries and whipped cream - extra whipped cream.

The experiment ends at midnight, the 15th, so I'm going to go through tomorrow on the diet. It's going to be a long day, and a joyous one.

One of our readers, Jason sent me this lovely photo of himself. Hi Jason!

Jason made me a lovely flash animation of me morphing from week one to week three of The Carotene Experiment, but I'm having the toughest time not being a retard long enough to post it. I've never dealt with flash before.

Total carrots consumed:

215

...and 122 glasses carrot juice.

JOE

joerogan.net

You're spiffy...or something.

I bet you knew someone was going to say that. :-)

I have been following your experiment closely since the second week (which is when I caught wind of your site and the experiment). This type of thing, the turning orange by carrot, is something that I have been intruiged by for a long time. Unfortunately I could never test it because I have a deep aversion to carrots. If it were me, I would try the experiment with Beta Carotene tablets and an otherwise regular diet, but that wouldn't answer the question of "can it be done with carrots, and if so, how many would it take." Of course, for a man of my size, 6'2" and 250+ pounds, it would probably take a great deal indeed. Keep up the interesting stuff!

-Kris

PS I don't really want to see your poo, and there's no 28 friends that I consulted with on the matter either.

Total carrots consumed:

227

...and 124 glasses carrot juice.

HI your pages very nice and you very pretty

i see your pages evrey dayes .thank u

good bye . fahad/sudia arabia / riyadh

get in there you little orange hottie
your on the home straight.. just a couple more days to go..
im voting again for the poos and also another pic of you in your underoos

tristan

Well Kimbo, we are waiting to see the grand finale, the green top atop your orangeness. The world is waiting. Don't keep us waiting too long, it's killing us. I've told a few select friends of this and they are tuning in. I'm amazed that you would do this considering your aversion to carrots, like, why would you want to look like one when you hate them. However, asking why with you can be futile so I withdraw the question. See what an inspiration you have been to us all, here I am thinking of Joe Rogan and what HE might do for a grand finale for his project; but on the other hand, I think that I'm not going to think about that anymore. My vote for the next project is to make Little Kim your alter ego and make her do all the talking for you. Sleep deprivation is not going to work with you, you'll never make it, and I'm not using reverse psychology, just experience and knowing that it's a rare day you are up before noon. And, you may find this hard to believe, I want to see the orange poo, and I hope and pray I am number 30. But it won't gross me out the way it will the rest of your little friends here because I've seen it before, lots of times, and if you want I can tell them all about it. But if you are going to do this, please tell me EXACTLY when and where on your site it will be, okay please?

Love Momooska

Hi Kim,

It's really great to see a woman with an interesting and
entertaining web site. I was directed to your web site through
Turpitude, and I think the carrot experiment is great. (BTW, if
you're so inclined, visit my web site at
http://chat.carleton.ca/~senns)

I've been a vegetarian for a long time, so I can really empathize
with the "you're going to get sick and die" messages people are
undoubtedly sending you.

I love it when people freak out about me "not getting enough
protein." Most North Americans eat WAY TOO MUCH protein (which, btw,
contributes to some really nice illnesses like kidney stones, ulcers,
rectal and colon cancer).

Protein is a major component of all organisms, so it isn't hard to
get. What is important, is to make sure that you get your protein
from a variety of sources, to make sure you are getting all the
different amino acids your body needs to construct its own proteins.
Proteins are combinations of different amino acids in chains. There
are, I think, 12 different amino acids. When you eat protein, your
body breaks down the proteins into individual amino acids, and then
reforms them into proteins your body needs to function (enzymes).
Most amino acids are common, and found in all food, but there are a
couple that are harder to find. They aren't as important, but you do
need them. You're probably doing just fine though, because you have
been eating different carrot-based foods... carrot cake uses eggs as
an ingredient, and eggs are a good source of one of the harder-to-
find varieties of amino acids.

I used to be a Biochemistry major, so I do kind of know what I'm
talking about here.

The last and final point of my email is to direct you to some
interesting carrot-themed pop culture... the end of Tool's "Undertow"
album, when it skips to track 69...

"And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One
thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear, and terror possessed me
then. And I begged 'Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured
screams?' And the Angel said unto me 'These are the cries of the
CARROTS. The cries of the CARROTS, you see Reverend Maynard, tomorrow
is harvest day, to them it is the holocaust.'"

Looking forward to the grand finale,
-Narcissa

i try somethinge strang 2 : i try to hear my theacher 'till juni
that's an even worse experiment !!! - pc02-07