If you are 65 or over, it is important to spend most of your time in a warm environment during the winter months. There are a number of things you can do to cope in cold weather.
Keep your main living room at around 18-21°C (65-70°F) and the rest of the house at least 16°C (61°F). If you can't heat all the rooms you use, heat the living room during the day and the bedroom just before you go to sleep.
Make sure you are receiving any benefits you are entitled to, such as the Winter Fuel Payment and Cold Weather Payment.
Regular hot drinks and eating at least one hot meal a day will help keep energy levels up during winter and keep your body warm.
Finally, make sure you get the seasonal flu jab. While not 100% guaranteed, it should reduce your vulnerability to infection...
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Why Is Santa Claus Fat? How St. Nick Gained Weight :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>If it weren't for Clement Clarke Moore, we might be leaving Santa Claus carrots instead of cookies on Christmas.</p>
<p>Santa Claus wasn't always fat. In fact, the inspiration for Santa, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/how-did-santa-claus-get-started-st-nicholas-kris-kringle-today-photos-1520016" target="_blank">St. Nicholas</a>, was a thin man. It was Moore, an Episcopal minister famous for the 1822 poem "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," who gave Santa the generous waistline.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/why-santa-claus-fat-how-st-nick-gained-weight-1520034
Firefighters end pre-Christmas strike :: Members of the Fire Brigades Union in England and Wales have held a further strike in a dispute over pensions.
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Pope Francis Kisses Baby Jesus Statue At Christmas Eve Mass; Praises Christ :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Pope Francis celebrated his first Christmas Eve mass at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Tuesday. The widely liked Argentinean pontiff took the opportunity to preach his message of humility and charity by emphasizing Jesus Christ's humble beginnings.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pope-francis-kisses-baby-jesus-statue-christmas-eve-mass-praises-christ-1520026
How Did Santa Claus Get Started? From St. Nicholas To The Kris Kringle Of Today [PHOTOS] :: <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Santa Claus that we know today – the fat, jolly, bearded and bespectacled Christmas symbol – wasn't always that way. So how did Santa start?</p>
<p>The story begins hundreds of years ago, in the Third century, with St. Nicholas, a monk who was born in the country known today as Turkey around 280 A.D. Depictions of the saint back then showed him as a thin man and not the rotund figure that's widely recognized today.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-did-santa-claus-get-started-st-nicholas-kris-kringle-today-photos-1520016
Montana Judge Orders Criminal To Write "Boys Do Not Hit Girls" 5,000 Times :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A Montana judge added a twist to one man's sentence that seemed inspired by middle school detention.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/montana-judge-orders-criminal-write-boys-do-not-hit-girls-5000-times-1519998
McDonald's To Workers: Beware of Fast Food, It's 'Unhealthy!' :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>McDonald's (MCD) human resources website is seemingly giving their employees some strange information. They once reportedly told their workers bizarre things like to take smaller bites of their food so they stayed full longer, and now the fast-food giant is reportedly advising its workers that eating too much McDonald's could be unhealthy, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/business/mcdonalds-employee-site-bashes-fast-food-2D11792135" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NBC News</a> reported.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/mcdonalds-workers-beware-fast-food-its-unhealthy-1519990
Seven Spanish clubs face EU probe :: Real Madrid, Barcelona and five other Spanish clubs are to be investigated over irregular public funding.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25410320
India: Where politics, property collide :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/bRyiCkdrq_E/index.html
Twentieth Century Fox theme park? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/bfU25IvEZ48/index.html
How can boarding a plane be faster? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/u7AMcpf1NOs/index.html
What bled Detroit's economy dry? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/VqxNoyNe4zw/index.html
Smart to invest in emerging markets :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/2_jnp2o3P70/index.html
Smarter ways to board a plane :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/u7AMcpf1NOs/index.html
How airlines are getting to know you :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/yhc1ZIolPVs/index.html
'We police it ourselves': Group processes in the escalation and regulation of violence in the night‐time economy :: Abstract
The attempt to regenerate city centres has led to the creation of a 'night‐time economy' (NTE) based around alcohol‐led entertainment. This has been accompanied by an increase of violence. Using insights from social identity research on collective action, we argue that NTE violence can be viewed as a group‐level phenomenon. Twenty focus groups were conducted with participants who socialise together (total number of participants = 53). Participants discussed their experiences of the NTE, including violence. A thematic analysis of the transcripts drew out four ways in which NTE violence is discussed in group terms: intergroup violence, intragroup violence, intragroup intervention (escalation) and intragroup intervention (regulation). The analysis reveals that groups ca...
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The Upside of Starting Your Career in a Recession :: In at least one sense, people who graduate in a tough economy are better offread more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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Asimov's 'I, Robot' Soon To Be Reality, No Longer Fiction :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Scientists have <a href="http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/12/19/a-micro-muscular-break-through/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">create</a>d what may become the future of prosthetics, a robot "muscle" that can throw something 50 times its own weight five times its length in a surprisingly fast 60 milliseconds. While it's easy to envision what this means for the future, a Hollywood image of robot arms crushing steel bars with ease comes quickly to mind, don't fear just yet, the new muscle is currently the size of a microchip.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/asimovs-i-robot-soon-be-reality-no-longer-fiction-1519986
"League of Legends" Player's Court Case Will Proceed After Making Terrorist Threat Earlier This Year :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Following a judge's ruling, the case against a well-known <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Legends" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"League of Legends" player</a> will proceed. In February 2013, 19-year-old gamer Justin Carter was arrested for making a "terrorist threat" on popular social media site Facebook, saying "I'm f-ed in the head alright. I think I'ma shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat the beating heart of one of them." The threat was made after Carter was allegedly called "crazy." A judge recently denied a motion to dismiss the case.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/league-legends-players-court-case-will-proceed-after-making-terrorist-threat-earlier-year-1519972
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