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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Medical and surgical management of chronic pelvic pain :: Abstract: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects over 1 million women in the UK, with subsequent impact on ability to work and the economy. It is often debilitating and can be difficult to treat. Gynaecologists have traditionally focussed on the organ-specific approach to the diagnosis of pain. Endometriosis is common as is chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and adenomyosis. Some causes are non-gynaecological such as irritable bowel syndrome and interstitial cystitis. However, as many as 55% of women presenting with CPP will have no obvious underlying pathology following completion of all investigations.This review focuses on the appropriate investigations, diagnosis and management of women with identified pathological causes of pelvic pain. It also considers the holistic approach to the manag...
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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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Backblaze on cheap hard drives: Buy Hitachi if you can afford 'em :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/UEbExgcqsa0/
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Exploding Private-Plus-Government Debt To GDP: Davos (World Economic Forum) Conversation Starter :: <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>Exploiting debt to boost economic growth, a favorite theory of certain economists, is dangerous and can lead to frightening consequences, according to a Société Générale note on Tuesday.</p>
<p> That suggests overall non-financial debt, and not just government debt, should be a topic of conversation for the Davos <a href="http://www.weforum.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Economic Forum</a> this week. That includes private debt held by households and corporations, among others.</p></div></div></div>
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'How I Met Your Mother' Season 9 Spoilers: 2 Big Mysteries Revealed;Barney's Job And The Names Of Ted's Children Solved :: <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> </p>
<p>It's the moment that "How I Met Your Mother" fans have been waiting for! No, not the big reveal of how Ted met Cristin Milioti's "mother" character … or the mystery of the pineapple. Viewers watching episode 15, "Unpause," finally learned the names of Ted's two children, <em>PLUS</em> what Barney does for a living.</p></div></div></div>
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Verizon leaks Nokia Lumia Icon smartphone on its own site :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/dY-T6FiGgQ4/
South Koreans Recovering From Theft Of Credit Card Data On As Many As 20 Million People, Government Vows To Punish Those Responsible :: <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>Executives at three credit card companies bowed in apology before the South Korean public on Monday after a man hired by a credit ratings firm stole client data that may have affected 20 million people, 40 percent of the nation's population, the New York Times reported.</p>
<p>At a news conference, the executives promised compensation to customers for any financial losses due to the data heist.</p></div></div></div>
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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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Bosses 'complacent' over power cuts :: Bosses of UK energy distribution firms have been accused of "utter complacency" as they defended their response to stormy weather that led to power cuts over the Christmas period.
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Analyzing our headlines to see what mattered in 2013 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/1lq2P1XG7dk/
VIDEO: Network bosses blasted for power cuts :: Commons Energy Select Committee chairman Tim Yeo says answers by bosses of energy distribution firms over Christmas power cuts are "absolutely astonishing".
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Logentries adds alerts, Amazon S3 archiving to its log analytics service :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/5OrCcqVSFCw/
London Market Report :: Shares in brewing giant SABMiller fall after its latest trading update, which shows emerging market sales offsetting a weaker performance in Europe.
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Lawyers Will Release Tuesday Thousands Of Pages Of Details Of Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Chicago-Area Catholic Priests :: <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>An estimated 6,000 pages of documents containing details of sexual abuse allegations made against 30 priests in the Chicago area, which was handed over last week by the Chicago Archdiocese to lawyers, will be released online Tuesday.</p>
<p>"Publishing for all to read the actual records of these crimes raises transparency to a new level," Cardinal Francis E. George, who has been the archbishop of Chicago since 1997, said in a letter to parishes earlier in January, the New York Times reported. "It will be helpful, we pray, for some, but painful for many."</p></div></div></div>
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