I never really ate carrots but they juice nicely. That's just sugar and beta carotene right?

Are carrots a health food?

Carrots are said to be high on oxalates (kidney stones). Also, carrot juice can be very sweet (high glycemic). Taken in 'small' amounts should be ok.

Carrots are fine in there full form and are as good as any other root vegetable from a health point of view.

Juicing glasses upon glasses of carrot juice daily id argue is not healthy, due to the reasons Panchito suggests above.

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too much sugar for me, but I think they are healthy in moderation.

I think powerlifer has it pretty well summed up. That carrots are a high source of oxalates is actually news to me. I know if foods are high in oxalic acid if I get cramps. No cramps = good food to me, anyway.

Seems to me the carrot as a whole food is perfectly healthy. They're great in juices, yes, but like anything else--everything in moderation. I'd stop if I start turning orange

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Some of these concerns are unfounded. Maybe this explain why Norman Walker did not live past the 100. I was the carrot juice man.

Juice the tops if you want serious nutrition

Hi,

Carrots are indeed healthy for our eyes. Carrots contain a large selection of nutritious vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A, C and K.Along with vitamins, carrots contain minerals like potassium, calcium and iron. Calcium contributes to strong bones, while iron enriches blood cells. Carrots are just as healthy raw or cooked, hot or cold.

Yes. They are full of all kinds of vitamins and cofactors and got the Dutch through all those wars, etc.

But if you don't like eating them, for whatever reason, don't.

I love carrots, I did not know they were high on oxalates. how do you ferment them?

Gerson protocol includes drinking about 13 glasses of carrot juice a day for months ( or even years), and people do get cured of cancer and other deseases...
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Carrots were great healer, great food until recently when we became bombarded with news that they contain high amount of oxalic acid and need to be fermented.

Normal Walker lived on this juice for many years. I lived past 90.

Panchito wrote '' carrots are said to be high in oxalates ( kidney stones ) ''. Is this one of those nonsensical unscientific statements made by someone with a ' beef ' against carrots? I'm afraid we can't let these pet theories go unchallenged any more.

What justification do you have to make this statement? How many people have gotten kidney stones from eating carrots? Where is the proof? Did the study refer to commercial carrots or organic carrots? People in temperate zones have been eating carrots for centuries (raw, cooked, fermented, pickled ) and they stored them in the cellars for winter when food was scarce.

No one is going to eat 20 carrots a day and nothing else, and we all seem to agree that it's better to have juices in moderation, unless someone is juice fasting for healing for a short time.

It's such a nonsensical statement to take things in isolation and scaremonger.

I agree. There are so much lies and misinformation around, that unless you are able to take a carrot and do the tests yourself for the amount of oxalic acid and what not that it may contain, I wouldn't believe anything.
On the other hand, Gerson does have well documented healing cases of people whom the conventional doctors sent home to die, some in the last stages of cancer all healed with the help of large amounts of carrot juice.

On the 80/10/10 board someone asked if garlic was ok to eat. Their pat answer was no, unless you can make a meal out of it in nature it's not fit for human consumption.Then I posed the question, how many people can make a meal out of celery or lettuce, or parsley or other herb? Show me one 811er who sits down to a meal of celery, yet they are encouraged to eat 10% calories of greens.

There's a difference between having a sliver or two of garlic if you enjoy it and it agrees with you, as opposed to making a meal out of it - yet that was their justification for opposing garlic. Now they have changed their story. There is so much nonsense that has gone unquestioned, but at least we are able to question it here.

powerlifer Wrote:
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> Carrots are fine in there full form and are as
> good as any other root vegetable from a health
> point of view.
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> Juicing glasses upon glasses of carrot juice daily
> id argue is not healthy, due to the reasons
> Panchito suggests above.
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> [www.natuhealth.co.uk]


I think this statement is as sound and logical as needed, common sense and maybe a good holistic practitioner will tell you if you need to stay away from this veggie. Certainly eating a little bit of it during the week even if you are very sick will not hurt.

Of course they are healthy.

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carrot yellow smoothies are very healthy

CommonSenseRaw Wrote:
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> carrot yellow smoothies are very healthy


What is in one? I have never heard of putting whole carrots in smoothies.

Yes the greatest smoothie, you can use cucumber as a base in a high speed blender to get some water first and add some carrots.

So it's only carrots and cukes or other stuff with it?