Curcumin: Question 2

Unintended consequences—that’s one of the basic tenets of science. We introduce a change, whether a diet, a nutrient, or even a specific type of exercise and we get results we didn’t expect. If they’re positive, great. But what if they’re not?

Here’s one for you. A good friend loved to eat carrots, and she ate a lot of raw carrots as part of her meals and snacks. Carrots have carotenoids, which have a characteristic orange color. She ate so many carrots that the palms of her hands turned orange. Definitely an unintended consequence.

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