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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Argentina restricts online shopping :: Argentina introduces new curbs on purchases from international websites such as Amazon, in a bid to stop foreign currency reserves falling further.
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How to be rich and believe in equality :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/p4SRZV95wGQ/index.html
Ready for women to rule workplace? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/jZZOohTVGzs/index.html
Don't fall for new Facebook scams :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/qiOvtjnaEgQ/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
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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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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How UK wonder substance graphene can't and won't benefit UK :: Once a research-rich economy the UK has fallen behind in innovation with UK firms allegedly either incapable or unwilling to exploit inventionsTo see what's really at stake in this week's autumn statement from George Osborne, do yourself a favour: duck out of the Westminster argy-bargy, hit the M1 and don't stop until you've reached Manchester. Then button-hole a physicist into showing you the wonder stuff discovered by two University colleagues just a few years ago.It's called graphene and it's the thinnest material on earth – almost a million times slimmer than a strand of hair. I saw it lying on a wafer of silicon and it resembled nothing so much as breath on a windowpane.Almost everything about graphene begs to be inscribed in legend. There's its discovery: a couple of Russian émigr...
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Step inside the airport of tomorrow :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/8MR0XFzZe_8/index.html
As Hospital Prices Soar, a Stitch Tops $500 :: Hospital pricing is often convoluted, and hospital charges represent about a third of the total United States health care bill. (Source: NYT Health)
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Research in brief – 28 November 2013 :: Our weekly round-up aimed at showcasing the latest research across the subject spectrum at UK universitiesScience and technology• University of SouthamptonIntroducing solid food with breast milk after the 17th week of birth could reduce food allergies in babies, research shows. By giving babies solid food alongside breastfeeding, it helps develop a better, stronger immune system to fight against food allergies. Kate Grimshaw, a dietitian and senior research fellow at Southampton University, says: "The immune system becomes educated when there is an overlap of solids and breast milk because the milk promotes tolerogenic mechanisms against the solids." The researchers found that children who had developed allergies began eating solid food earlier than children with no allergies — roughly...
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Coping with shrinking airline seats :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ZsWTLkYbTcM/index.html
US 'cautions' businesses over Iran :: US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew tells the BBC to act "cautiously" with Iran and it is "not softening" its position on sanctions,
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Barcelona president Rosell resigns :: The president of Barcelona football club quits after a Spanish court decides to investigate last summer's signing of Brazil forward Neymar.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25866962
Google's Schmidt in jobs warning :: The jobs problem will define the next two to three decades, Google chairman Eric Schmidt says at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Spain's jobless total rises though economy picks up :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/RqxFNTOdjm8/
Patience needed on economy, PM says :: Prime Minister David Cameron says the UK economic recovery will take time and patience, and must be driven by manufacturing as well as services.
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