Great Moments in Research: Eating Carrots Makes You More Attractive

Thus saith a new British study, apparently.  In the news report, though, there is one sentence that made me laugh out loud.  Here, let me highlight the bit for you:

Researchers at St Andrews and Bristol universities studied the relationship between skin colour and attractiveness, and found people with a yellow skin hue were perceived as particularly healthy and attractive ...

This must explain the secret of my social success!  If I were a grievance-monger, I'd probably accuse carrots and the study of being raaaaaaaaaaaacist, hahahaha!