Author Archives: Owen Jones

Cooking Italian Food With Pasta

If a non-Italian thinks of Italian food, two dishes come to mind: pasta and pizza. Making the dough for a pizza means some work, so the first meal that most people cook if they think to ‘cook Italian’, they try a pasta dish. Continue reading

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Diabetes And Expectant Mothers

Although pregnancy is a totally natural and everyday procedure for women, there is no doubt that it imposes both mental and physical stresses and strains on the person involved. Continue reading

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Did Dr Atkins Make A Grapefruit Diet?

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not supported by the eponymous Dr. Atkins firm, that plays on the fame of two diets: the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet. However, a close look into this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be. Continue reading

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Fishing The Open Sea

Though the terminology ‘deep sea fishing’ seems to indicate marine fishing expeditions, the term actually applies to any form of fishing in waters larger than a lake. Rivers and ponds are not meant for deep sea fishing as the water may not be deep enough. Deep sea fishing is carried out in coastal waters that make up the habitat of lots of species of large fish. Continue reading

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Atkins Diet: Low Carbohydrate Diet Menu Ideas

With the coming of the New Age, gone are the days when having a Marilyn Monroe type figure was considered of as the ideal of what a woman should look like. Now we have skinny role models on what the perfect woman should look like, and this is the shape we want to have for ourselves as well. Therefore, most of us will try any and every diet possible, but it’s a fact that a growing number of dieters are concentrating more on what the Atkins low carb diet menu has to offer for them than anything else. Continue reading

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How I Was Brought Up Religiously

I was born in 1954, the first child of my parents, who later had five more children, four of whom were still alive into adulthood. My parents rarely went out together: my father worked and my mother took care of us all and the home. When I was six, seven or eight, my Dad used to take me to church with him on a Friday night, probably to give my mother a bit of a break. Continue reading

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Dental Concerns For Diabetics

The foremost problem for diabetics is not the lack of insulin, it is the result of the lack of insulin and that result is that the blood becomes over-saturated with sugar (or glucose). Continue reading

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Mardi Gras Cooking Cajun Style

Mardi Gras is a unique time of the year down in Cajun Country. Even if you don’t live down in New Orleans you can still rejoice in some of the fun and revelry associated with Mardi Gras by throwing a grand old meal worthy of King Rex himself. Continue reading

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The Problems With Diabetes

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or that you are in a pre-diabetic state, it is very disconcerting. It is all is new to you and you have heard horror stories about diabetes. Well, those horror stories are true for people who cannot afford medication or who do not take the condition seriously. Continue reading

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What Sort Of Garden Furniture Cushions Are The Best?

Those who have garden furniture prefer to spend as much of the summer sitting in their garden as possible. For these people, the summer months are too short and so they spend every spare moment of sunny weather enjoying the flowers in their garden and the good weather. Continue reading

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