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Better Your Health and the Planet's. We welcome in the New Year to the tune of resolutions big and small. This year I'm going to lose the extra weight...This year I'm going to eat better...This year...will be different.

But what if improving your health could improve the health of the environment?

In the first week of October the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony was held at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is the 18th year that the awards have been run to celebrate some of the more dubious and/or hilarious achievements of science.

The Annual Ig Nobel Prizes are run as a funny alternative to the annual Nobel prizes for medicine, chemistry, physics, economics, literature and peace.

The Ig Nobels honour real research and are based on published research papers. Usually the awarded reciprients go along with the light hearted awards.

I remember my young days when Mother would announce she is making an ice cream treat. It created excitement and an anxious fervor as we watched and waited for the treat to be whipped together using real unpasteurized milk and natural fruit flavors. Then it was the long wait for the ice cream to set in the freezer.

It seemed like eternity before we finally sat down to eat…natural ice cream heaven.

I particularly enjoyed the apricot special made from over ripe fruits freshly picked from the heavily burdened tree outside the kitchen window that I had planted years earlier. The tree became a bearer of the most magnificent fruit and I was heartbroken years later when the family home was sold and the new owners cut down the tree.