White lies help coax girl into eating vegetables  

为劝妹妹吃青菜女生网上征谎言 700万网友参与讨论

福建漳州一名高三女生为了劝挑食的妹妹多吃青菜，发动网友编善意的“谎言”，称吃青菜可以防止雾霾中毒，引发网友积极回应。截至昨天晚上6点，已有700多万网友参与讨论，并有1.6万多名网友回复该网友的问题，共同劝妹妹多吃青菜。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) – A high school girl asked netizens to help support a white lie she told about eating vegetables for smog poisoning, and over 16,000 netizens helped her, the Beijing Times reported.

The help seeker, surnamed Hu, from Zhangzhou, Fujian province, said she told her 9-year-old younger sister that smog can poison people, and was asked what to do if poisoned.

"Considering she hates vegetables, I told her eating them can prevent poisoning, but she doubted it and tried to find answers on the Internet," Hu said.

Hu posted the question, "What if people get poisoned with smog?" on Baidu Knows, a question-and-answer service on Baidu, and published a Weibo post asking netizens to help her support her lie.

Millions of netizens joined in, and over 16,000 answers were provided to help the younger sister eat her vegetables. Some of the answers were given by nutrition experts.

Gu Zhongyi, a freelance nutrition expert at Baidu Knows, also participated in the discussion, and said eating vegetables can mitigate the harm caused by smog to people's health.

"Some fine particulate matters can be breathed into lungs and flow into the bloodstream, causing oxidative stress injury, but antioxidants from vegetables can help combat the injury."

Hu said theses answers did help, and her sister ate all her vegetables the next day.