Thursday, April 26, 2007
Carrots
For everyone else's entertainment/pondering... I just woke up from a nap, since I came home feeling very ill. Chilled, light-headed, headachy, shaky, slightly nauseous... I feel completely better now. This is at least the third time this has happened that I can remember, always immediately after eating... baby carrots. Can one have an allergy/intolerance to carrots?! I tried googling it, and carrot allergies that come up are more like typical food allergies- itching, hives, anaphylactic shock. Very weird.
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maybe it's not the carrots themselves but a reaction to something that's used to process them?
I think as a scientist you need to approach the situation logically.
Hypothesis: Sheryl is allergic to carrots.
Control experiment: Sheryl doesn't eat a carrot during the afternoon.
Experiment #1: Sheryl eats baby carrots (unwashed) from Meat Farms.
Experiment #2: Sheryl eats baby carrots (washed thoroughly) from Meat Farms.
Experiment #3: Sheryl eats baby carrots from Stop and Shop.
Experiment #4: Sheryl eats regular carrots.
We will get to the bottom of this.
Do we think meat farms carrots are processed differently than stop and shop carrots, or should I add some variety of Trader Joe's organic cage-free baby carrots to this experiment?
to really answer the question, we should use as many varieties of carrot and baby carrot as possible...
I think it is completely reasonable that one might feel "chilled, light-headed, headachy, shaky, slightly nauseous..." if all one is eating is carrots. First of all, it would take awful lot of carrots to sustain oneself, and by the 258th or so, some of these symptoms might ensue, especially "nauseous". The other symptoms might arise from caloric insufficiency. That, and "chilled" may arise since it is some 10 or 15 degrees colder today that it has been for the past few days.
So I don't think there's any problem at all.
I didn't say I had only carrots, just that it has happened in all cases immediately after having baby carrots. In fact before the carrots I had breakfast twice, and then scrounged free food from our student meeting to have as a snack before the carrots which were a snack before I was planning to have lunch. Lunch was then postponed because of the chills, light-headedness and nausea.
sheyl, have I told you lately that you eat like a hobbit???
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