fiat_knox | "Eating Brightly Coloured Foods Makes You More Attractive"

In a vain attempt to get teens to eat more greens, the news channels have resorted to outright mendacity:-

Dumb Yahoo News Article

Apparently, people with yellow skin are more attractive, so kids, eat carrots if you don't want to be white any more. And who'd blame you.

From the article:- "Telling people they might have a heart attack in 40 years' time if they don't eat more healthily is one thing. What we can do is say, 'This is what you could look in a couple of months if you increased your fruit and veg intake'."

Eating any brightly coloured foods make you more attractive because your skin goes the same colour as the food, so ...

Yes, of course it does. Roy Kinnear used to eat huge quantities of pink blancmange. Of course, the film wouldn't have been half as fun if it'd been Willy Wonka and the Carrot Factory. But it'd have explained the Oompa Loompas' complexion.