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There is a very strong, and correct, movement to ban plastic carrier bags and I support it. However, sometimes something happens to brighten up your day and this is just an extract of an email that did just that. Fancy having funny and thought-provoking images on your plastic bags - so much that you actively keep them and reuse them - they might even qualify as art. They say a great picture is worth a thousand words? By the way All Trademarks are acknowledged Read Full Story

Celebrations and family get togethers seem to bring out something within us. Cooking is the tie that binds people in ways that they do not immediately realize. Families gather around the dinner table to talk about their day. Co-workers bond over office parties celebrating birthdays, special promotions or retirement. The food that we share does more than nourish our bodies, it also nourishes our minds and spirits. Cooking does not have to be complicated. There are free recipes everywhere... Read Full Story

It is true that if you have diabetes there are restrictions to what you can eat but that does not mean you will no longer be able to savor your food. An excellent method of cutting down the symptoms of diabetes is by controlling what types of food you eat, this is also a good way if you want to steer away from diabetes in the first place. Using approved and regulated diabetic recipes; the task of staying on top of the condition becomes less of a burden. Diabetes Treatments One of the... Read Full Story

By taking a proactive approach to managing your diabetes, and you can get help for a healthy type 2 diabetes meal plan, you can continue to live life to the full. With a sensible diet and lifestyle, testing your blood glucose levels daily, making sure you get lots of exercise, and taking your tablets and/or insulin injections will mean you can safely manage your diabetes and blood levels. You must control your sugar levels if you want to avoid the possibilities of allowing the diabetes to... Read Full Story

Once in a while we meet life changing people and in our case a dog. We first met Tilly near Swindon in August 2000 on holiday. She was one of a litter of Airdale puppies and was the only one left - everyone else had been sold and were due to be picked up in the coming days. She was all legs and black with dark brown patches. Her jaw was a bit odd and her lower front teeth were crooked. Put simply you could understand why she was the only one left. She was a misfit but we adopted her and the... Read Full Story

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that reduces a person’s immunity. It can lead to heart disease, and it may also affect some organs of the body, such as the eyes. Diabetes is, in fact, the cause of the most common form of blindness, a condition known as diabetic retinopathy. Living with Diabetes Almost all patients with Type 1 diabetes and 60 percent of patients with Type 2 diabetes who have had the disease for 15 years or longer, suffer from some degree of diabetic retinopathy... Read Full Story

There are various treatments for depression but this one can be not only original, but also effective. Swimming with dolphins can be an effective therapy for depression according to a research carried out in Honduras. It was known that these animals had healing properties for other diseases but not alleviating depression . Under support of biophilia theory, which shows how human health and wellbeing are dependent on our relationships with the natural environment, the research showed that... Read Full Story

We’ve all heard it before, avoiding exercise and eating lots of fats and sugar as well as being overweight can cause type 2 diabetes . The good news however is that if you act now you can prevent this form of diabetes from occurring, or reduce and even cure the condition if you’ve been recently diagnosed. As type 2 diabetes is usually in direct relation to your lifestyle it’s important to make changes to the way you live your life to see improvements. Now this isn’t as bad as it sounds and... Read Full Story

Don’t you find it strange that with all our insight of nutrition and the human body that we would have solved the secret to curing obesity and excess body weight ? Yet, But even with the meteoric expansion of the diet industry, many nations are suffering from an disturbing rise in individuals afflicted with excess weight or obesity and many of the serious related medical conditions. The reality is that many claimed diet solutions are spurious – many fail to tackle the actual causes of... Read Full Story

A man is stuck in traffic. He asks a police officer about the hold-up and he replies: "The head of the Bank Of England is so depressed about the economy he's stopped his car and is threatening to douse himself with petrol and set himself on fire. So we're taking up a collection for him." The man asks: "How much have you got so far?" The policeman replies: "About 40 gallons, but a lot of people are still siphoning." Read Full Story