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.
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Beanie Babies creator sentenced :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/HT6cWpcNREA/index.html
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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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It's confirmed: Verizon is buying Intel's OnCue TV service :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/kS0YdbTZ7M0/
Banks not lending enough, say MPs :: Small UK businesses are still struggling to access enough funding despite efforts by the government to boost lending, says a committee of MPs.
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IMF 'to raise UK growth forecast' :: The International Monetary Fund is expected to raise its growth forecast for the UK economy later on Tuesday.
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Night work 'throws body into chaos' :: Doing the night shift throws the body into chaos and could be causing long-term damage, warn researchers.
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Home loans in 2013 'half their peak' :: The amount of money borrowed by home-owners last year was less than half that seen at the peak of the housing boom in 2007, mortgage lenders say.
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Feeding the famous at Davos :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/7irqFAqz45o/davos-pkg-soares-feeding-the-famous.cnn.html
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Bosses 'complacent' over power cuts :: Bosses of UK energy distribution firms have been accused of "utter complacency" as they defended their plans for stormy weather that led to power cuts over the Christmas period.
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Tourism In 2013: Where Did It Grow And Who Fueled That Growth? :: <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 your trip to the airport, train station or international border last year was even more frazzling than usual, here are some statistics that may explain why: An additional 52 million international tourists traveled the world in 2013, setting a new record of 1.087 billion arrivals, according to the latest statistics from the U.N. World Tourism Organization.</p></div></div></div>
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Robert De Niro's Homage To His Late Father, 'Remembering The Artist Robert De Niro Sr.,' Screened At Sundance :: <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>Actor Robert De Niro honored his late father with a documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Sunday.</p>
<p>"I did this for him," De Niro reportedly said after the screening of "Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro Sr.," adding: "I wanted my younger kids - who were born after he died - to know what their grandfather did. I even kept his painting studio intact so they could see it."</p>
<p>De Niro was present at the Sundance filmmaker panel with his producing partner Jane Rosenthal, director Perri Peltz, and art consultant Megan Fox Kelly.</p></div></div></div>
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Super League agrees new sponsorship :: Super League agrees a deal with energy supplier First Utility to become the competition's sponsor for the next three years.
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US Stock Futures Point To Higher Opening; Earnings Continue To Be In Focus With Delta, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon Being Some Of The Big Guns On Deck Tuesday :: <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>Stock futures on Tuesday suggested an upbeat start to the markets, which will return from a long weekend and attempt to put a mixed week behind them.</p>
<p>Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 0.3 percent and futures on the S&P 500 were up 0.23 percent while those on the Nasdaq were up 0.39 percent.</p>
<p>With no data releases scheduled for the day, investors' attention will remain focused on a crowded line-up of Wall Street majors, which are set to declare quarterly earnings Tuesday.</p></div></div></div>
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Alstom's profit hit as orders fall :: French engineering firm Alstom warns that its full year profit margin will miss targets, sending its shares plunging 14%.
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