It sounds like you're eating too many carrots (428% Vit A DV for a 1-cup serving). You know this. Try some celery (0% DV), broccoli florets (2% DV), cauliflower florets (0% DV), etc. All are crunchy.

If you are orange, then it's time to cut back on carrots.

Do you want to look like Trump?

Stop when you turn yellow.

Anonymous wrote:When you turn orange, you should stop.

i once turned orange from eating too many tangerines over time. Yep, can and will happen

You will get orange from too many carrots. Then, you'll know.

When you turn orange, you should stop.

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Dr. Google says that if the skin color doesn't bother you (although I'm surprised it does not), you probably aren't suffering any other ill effects.

http://www.uamshealth.com/medicalmythscarrots

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400486/Eating-Too-Many-Carrots.html

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/vitamina.html#overdose

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What happens if you take in too much Vitamin A. you could develop vitamin A toxicity, known as Hypervitaminosis A. Excessive intake of Vitamin A in the form of beta carotene is not harmful, but will cause the skin to turn yellow. This can be reversed by consuming less beta carotene.

In contrast large doses of supplements of Vitamin A as retinol (10 to 15 times the RDA) is harmful and could result in fatty liver (hepatomegally), dry skin, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, weakness, headaches, anorexia and possibly an increase in birth defects among pregnant women.

This is reasonably common with as many as 5 per cent of people taking vitamin A suffering from the toxicity symptoms. Stopping the large doses usually reverses the symptoms with no lasting damage, although in children damage can be permanent.

Too much carrot juice and vitamin A supplements can kill you!

Though the yellowing of the skin from indulging in a heavy dose of carrots is seldom serious and will disappear in a few days, continued carrot gorging can cause medical problems. In 1974 one unfortunate English health advocate named Basil Brown consumed 10 gallons of carrot juice and took 10,000 times the recommended RDA of vitamin A in a period of 10 days. Those 10 days were the unfortunate man's undoing, his skin turned bright yellow and he died of severe liver damage.

Extract from "The Times" - Times 15 February 1974

Carrot juice diet killed scientist

A health food addict who had been drinking up to eight pints of carrot juice a day was bright yellow when he died, an inquest at Croydon. Surrey, was told yesterday. Dr John Fabricius said he believed Mr Basil Brown' aged 48, a scientific adviser, had died of vitamin A poisoning.

Mrs Brenda Brown, of Hayes Lane, Kenley, the dead man's wife, told Dr Mary McHugh, the coroner, that she had prepared the carrot juice. "Nobody pre- scribed it. He just thought it was the right way to cat. He also took vitamin A tablets."

A typical day's diet for her husband was: breakfast, carrot juice and fruit ; midday, more carrot Juice and fruit; evening meal, eggs, tomatoes, cheese. Dr J. Fabricius, the family's doctor, told the coroner that he had warned Mr Brown against his addiction to vitamin A. He had warned Mr Brown to stop taking vitamin A and had later sent him to a specialist who also warned him.

Mr Brown had been '"an intelligent man but he had a very low opinion of doctors ". Dr David Haler, a pathologist, said that Mr Brown was bright yellow when he died. Vitamin A poisoning, like alcoholic poisoning, produced cirrhosis of the liver. The inquest found that Mr Brown had died from carrot juice addiction.

As a teen, I found that I probably was eating too many carrots, as I also experienced a bit of an orangey cast to my skin. By reducing how much I ate (it wasn't even that much, probably a few sticks per day), the orange subsided.

Why not substitute some other crunchy veg? Jicama? Celery?

Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin, which means that it builds up in your body over time and is stored there. (This is as opposed to water soluble vitamins like vitamin C, that are excreted in body fluids.) It can absolutely be toxic at high levels. Normally, you would have to eat a LOT of carrots to reach this level, but if you've been doing this for a long time and your palms are turning orange, it sounds like you already have too much in your system.

You need to cut this out immediately and have your particular situatiobn evaluated by a registered dietitian or an MD.

I have a weird food addiction. I love raw carrots, and have since childhood. I love nothing more than to eat them while reading or watching TV, and I eat 3 or 4 big ones a day. I've been doing this since I was a kid, and I go through a 5 pound bag per week with DS. Sometimes more. My palms and soles have been orange-ish for years, and even though I'm a pale-skinned blonde, I have a peachy cast to my face that people often compliment, but that I am pretty sure is from carrot eating. Anyway, when I was a kid my mom asked a doctor if eating so many carrots was OK because of all the Vitamin A, and the doctor said it is fine because it isn't like the Vitamin A in Retin A. But last week I saw a new doctor who asked how long my palms had been orange, and she told me to stop eating so many carrots because it "is really unhealthy if you can see it in your skin." I also eat a lot of red peppers and tomatoes, but not as many of those as carrots.

I know this is really weird, but I am kind of alarmed, and I like crunching on something when reading. I just like carrots. Is it really unhealthy? I mean, if I replace them with cookies, that is probably going to be more unhealthy, but am I harming myself if I keep eating this many? I eat a healthy diet other than my extreme carrot consumption.

DH laughs at me, but teen DS eats them too, so if it is bad I want to stop him as well.