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Remember how your mother always used to make you eat carrots in order for you to see better? True or false? First of all, mom was kinda fibbing just to get you to eat em’, because carrots can neither improve eyesight nor give a blind person back their vision. Carrots contain beta-carotene which the body converts to Vitamin A—a crucial nutrient for maintaining your eye’s health.

Here’s how carrots CAN help your eyes:

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Humans have been hunting for honey for at least 8,000 years as depicted by cave paintings in Valencia, Spain. Here, on rock etchings, two hunters are shown collecting honey from a honeycomb in a wild bee nest. In ancient Egypt, honey was not only used as a pastry sweetener, but also for embalming the dead and for offerings to, Min, the fertility god of Egyptians.

Fast forward to today. Is Honey really that good for your honey? Of course it is! Following are just a few of the many health benefits reported in the literature for this busy bee’s, natural sweetener:

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Chicago's bank account is looking pretty nice after only 5 months!

In early August, they passed new ticketing laws for low-level possession of marijuana. We guess we should be happy that these folks aren't being arrested, but at what point do you realize that taxing legal weed would bring in way more money than punishing people?

They've issued about 400 citations and have given themselves about $98,000 dollars from citizens in the process. The idea behind it is that

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Well, this is one way to make people healthier, we suppose.

Even though we don't really agree with it!

If you're overweight and British, you might be seeing your healthcare benefits cut if you don’t complete a doctor-prescribed exercise regimen.

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At what point do you drop your political whining and realize that you're acting like a bunch of awful human beings?

According to a Nebraska Wendy's franchise, sometime after slashing hours to avoid ObamaCare for your workers — if ever. This is rotten and just downright mean.

We can't for the life of us figure out why anyone wouldn't want health benefits for their workers. Even if we were just talking about ONE worker not making the cut, that would be horrible, right?? Instead, we're talking about roughly 100 workers in non-management positions at 11 Omaha-area Wendy's who will have their hours cut to 28 a week.

Not only are you taking away healthcare, but you're taking away precious hours and wage that might be helping these workers to live their lives. Everyone should be ashamed of this.

Gary Burdette, Vice President of Operations for the local franchise and resident Bad Guy, said

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A new study found that if you increase your intake of this certain food group while cutting your calories, you can lose weight!!

Wanna know what it is??

It's dairy!!

The study looked at randomized controlled clinical studies and found that people who ate the most dairy had a 1.6-pound greater fat loss and a 1.3-pound muscle mass increase.

Why all the positive benefits?

The researchers think that

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Everyone makes a New Year's resolution to be healthier, but precious few actually follow through on it!

But what if there were simple ways you could improve your health?

Dietician Julieanna Hever says there are, and she has ten amazing tips for staying healthy in 2013!

Here's one!

Do three 10-minute intense movement sessions a day.

Gain the same benefits from exercising in shorter bouts as if you clumped them altogether. Walk fast, jump rope, climb stairs. Try performing a circuit series of a few exercises in rotation…for example, do 10 pushups, 10 mountain climbers, one-minute held plank, 10 squat jumps, and repeat the series three times. Other activities you can maximize in mini bouts include:

· Run (with your pooch or a friend)

· Do walking lunges across a hallway while holding weights or heavy water bottles

· Exercise with resistance (kettlebells, tubing, your body, weights)

· Workout DVDs or online videos (many mini workouts are now easy to find)

· Dance to your favorite music

· Kickboxing, boxing, or other martial arts practice

Check back with us for more of the 10 Great Health Tips for 2013! Special thanks to Julieanna Hever!

Follow her on Twitter HERE and pick up her rad-as-hell book HERE!!!

[Image via AP Images.]

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