Aaron Boone maintained confidence in his team amid their recent skid. His statement makes very little sense.The New York Yankees, once again plagued by injuries, have lost four straight and seven of their last 10. In the aftermath of Sunday's 4-1 loss to the rival Boston Red Sox, the Yanks ...

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If some influencers on TikTok are to be believed, eating a handful of carrots a day will give you a tan. An account called isabelle.lux posted last week to claim that eating three carrots each day would make you orange. And the fad is spreading like wildfire. @isabelle.lux #stitch with @Isabelle ⚡️ Lux ?CARROT TAN 101 take Astaxanthin (i get mine on amazon) #carrottan #selftan #selftanroutine Tanning hack routine Carrot tan before and after results But like most things promoted by beauty grifters on the internet, all is not what it seems. Two dieticians wrote in The Conversation on 27 September that, no, you probably won't get that golden tan just from eating a couple of root vegetables. They are Lauren Ball, professor of community health and wellbeing at The University of Queensland, and Emily Burch, a dietitian, researcher and lecturer, Southern Cross University. Here’s what they had to say. What is Carotene? The reason carrots are orange is because they contain beta-carotene, a natural pigment. When you eat it, your gut breaks it down into vitamin A, which helps vision, reproduction, immunity and growth. If you eat too much beta-carotene, it stops breaking it down into vitamin A. Then your poo goes orange. (No, really.) The excess beta-carotene gets stored in the liver and fat tissue, write Ball and Burch, and is excreted through your poo, or removed via sweat glands in the outer layer of the skin. This is when your skin goes orange, or “tanned”. There’s even a medical name for the condition – carotenoderma – which sees the orange pigmentation concentrated in the palms of your hands, the soles of your feet and the smile lines near your nose. So how many carrots do you need? “A few days of high carrot intake will unlikely result in a change in skin colour,” Bell and Burch write. Moreover, “no high quality trials have been conducted to test the relationship between number of carrots eaten per day and skin colour changes or other outcomes”. One published case report found that for a person who ate around 3kg of carrots per week (about seven large carrots a day) found the colour of their skin started to change. Other experts have suggest you would need to eat at least ten carrots per day, for at least a few weeks, for colour changes to occur. The experts added: “Most people would find this carrot intake challenging.” Is that even good for you? And while they continue that myths around beta-carotene being toxic for humans don’t quite stack up, there is a potential danger. “There is, however, some evidence that taking high-dose beta-carotene supplements (20 mg per day or more) increases lung cancer risk in people who smoke cigarettes or used to smoke,” they wrote. “This may be due to changes to chemical signalling pathways.” The Cancer Council therefore recommends avoiding high doses of beta-carotene supplements (more than 20 mg per day). But the good news is that if you really want to go a strange orange hue, beta-carotene is also found in parsley, basil, chives, chilli powder and sun-dried tomatoes. So as far as real fruit and veg is concerned, you might as well crack on. Read the full article in The Conversation here. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

A crucial deal aimed at averting a global food crisis following Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been extended for two months.

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Tottenham Hotspur midfielder James Maddison has roasted Chelsea legend for celebrating with tequila and singing after the Blues' 4-1 victory over Spurs on Monday night. The Premier League witnessed one of the best games of the season and one of the most chaotic in the history of the league on Monday when Chelsea went to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to face Ange Postecoglu's undefeated side. However, things didn't quite go Spurs way and despite leading and having a goal ruled out for offside they soon unraveled as Chelsea's Cole Palmer scored from the penalty spot to equalise, after Cristian Romero was sent off for the North London club. Things got worse Spurs when their Italian defender Destiny Udogie was sent off in the second half for a second bookable offence. Bizarrely, rather than defend Tottenham opted to play a high line which left them very exposed at the back. That being said it took Mauricio Pochettino's men 10 minutes to make their numerical advantage count with their Senegalese strike Nicolas Jackson bagging a late hat-trick to seal all three points. Chelsea legend John Terry didn't seem to mind that his former club had struggled to beat a nine-man team and uploaded a video on Instagram with him and his wife, Toni, dancing on their bar, singing along to '(I Just) Died in Your Arms.' Terry wrote in the caption: "When @chelseafc beat Spurs 4-1 on a school night and the tequila comes out, and you end up dancing and singing on the bar." However, Maddison took exception to the over-exuberant celebrations and wrote in the comments: "Jesus, u have ur eyes closed when it was 11 v 11 first 15 JT?" Terry was quick to quip back, writing: "Don’t worry mate you will get used to it." The victory moved Chelsea up to tenth in the Premier League after enduring a stuttering start to the campaign. Spurs, meanwhile remain in second place, a point behind league leaders Manchester City. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings

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Chinese state media report that Foxconn, a Fortune 500 company known globally for making Apple iPhones, was recently subjected to searches by Chinese tax authorities

By Tom Wilson and Jaiveer Shekhawat (Reuters) -A string of executives have quit Binance, according to their tweets and media

England's Harry Kane has made his official Bayern Munich debut, coming on as a substitute in the club's crushing 3-0 defeat to German Cup winners RB Leipzig in the Super Cup final in Munich on Saturday.

Joe Burrow doesn't like country music.

Mexico's economy grew 1.1% in the third quarter from the previous three-month period, national statistics agency INEGI said