Why I Don’t Wear Glasses Anymore: A Story About Carrot Juice
A Story About Losing Eyeglasses and Much Improved Eyesight – A Healthy Food Writer’s True Story. How your positive contribution to the lives of others can affect your own life.
It seems that the only times we pay attention to our mental and physical health is when our bodies cannot cope with the loads, stresses and strains of life. These seem to haunt us most of the time and it is during these moments that we turn to the virtues of nature to provide us with miraculous cures. However, keep in mind that if we acquired the wonderful qualities of nature early in our childhood, we may not run into as many problems later in life.
After my hard and exhausting work week, I was so tired that I couldn’t sleep well. The next day I couldn’t find my glasses. He needed them urgently to write a letter but could not find them anywhere. Imagine my joy when I suddenly discovered that I could write without my glasses! What a miracle! I was completely baffled by this for years, but then I realized that this wonderful discovery was the result of drinking a glass of fresh carrot juice every day.
Up to that point, I had taken several different supplements and vitamins to improve my eyesight, but they didn’t seem to make much of a difference. Could it be that the fresh carrot juice I drank every morning really cured me? I scolded myself: ‘You tell everyone about the healthy benefits of fruits and vegetables. You wrote so many fairy tales, stories and legends about the miracles of carrots and yet you cannot believe in this miracle! One day teachers at a school in Russia sent us a letter telling us how they had incorporated our fairy tales into their children’s lessons. They had brought a large pumpkin to the lessons and told the children that ‘Aunt Pumpkin’ ruled the plant kingdom as she was the largest and most loving vegetable on the planet. Then they told the children about the miracles that green-eyed Aunt Pumpkin could do with her splendid orange dress; how he could heal painful joints and strengthen bones and intestines.
It wasn’t long before the parents started complaining. One mother moaned: ‘My daughter won’t let her father relax. She loves to lie down in front of the television after work, but she keeps pulling on her sleeves to go to the kitchen and eat pumpkin. He kept repeating all night: ‘Dad, now I know why you are always so tired. It’s because you don’t eat pumpkin. It is the pumpkin that gives strength and energy! ‘
‘My son won’t stop bothering me about pumpkins. Every day he wants to have dinner. Keep saying, “I don’t want my teeth to break.” In the past, I never ate pumpkin, “exclaimed another mother.
Here, we have a real fact of life regarding what a single fairy tale can do – it can create a miraculous impression on children.
One day, I visited a school at lunchtime. The school cooks prepared carrot salad for the children. When I saw a boy push his salad plate away with hatred in his eyes, I asked him: ‘Do you know why gnomes like carrots more than gold?’ At that moment, all conversation in the dining room stopped and all eyes turned to me. “They really like carrots better than gold.” I said again. “In many countries they tell stories about how gnomes trade pieces of gold with lumberjacks in exchange for delicious carrots.” – This is because there is vitamin A in carrots that helps people grow big and strong. Gnomes grow very slowly, so the vitamins that can help them grow faster are more valuable to them than all the jewels on earth. The vitamins in carrots can also help you see perfectly. The light underground is very bad, so the gnomes’ eyes suffer. Fresh carrot is a wonderful cure for them. If you want to see a gnome, you should always go to the forest with some carrots.
After dinner, the school cook told the teacher that everyone wanted extra helpings of carrot salad. They are probably up to some kind of prank. We always have a lot of salad left over. Said the cook.
It’s weird, but very often we get letters from students from different universities and schools who are writing essays and reports on healthy foods and they ask us if we will allow them to use our illustrations of talking strawberries and playful bananas.
Our message to everyone: Dear friends, our fruits and vegetables don’t just talk and play in our illustrations. They also talk and play with fairy tales and stories that tell us their wonderful secrets. These fruits and vegetables will remain close to our hearts forever. All we have to do is learn about its miraculous qualities and use them in our daily lives.