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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

The main ingredient in dark chocolate, which is packed full of disease-fighting antioxidants. The darker the chocolate the more cocoa it contains, so to maximise the health-boosting benefits it's best to opt for the dark varieties that have no added milk chocolate.

Cocoa contains high amounts of anti-oxidants, even more than red wine or black tea! Then the news that the antibacterial agents in cocoa beans offset its high sugar level, making chocolate a better choice than other candies in not promoting tooth decay. For an earth-friendly alternative, choose organic chocolate.

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.