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Old Man Winter can be a brutal companion if you aren’t adequately prepared to keep his company.

About 600 people die each year in American from excessive cold. Hypothermia can occur when the body temperature drops below 95 degrees as a result of prolonged exposure to cold temperatures. In extreme cases, it can cause death.

Because the body loses heat faster than it produces it, hypothermia can take a person by surprise, making it especially dangerous.

Know The Symptoms

On the news this morning there was a debate about whether organic produce is any safer than the modern technology used on today’s inorganic farms.

It was claimed if you buy local, fresh produce from the farmers markets it would have the same taste and flavour as the mostly imported organic produce found in our supermarkets.

It was agreed organic produce is more expensive than inorganic and farmers require much more land to produce their crops, so the question was

Is organic a lifestyle or a health choice?

Well let’s see -

Recycling is one of the best ways in which to have a positive impact upon the world in which we live in. Recycling is highly beneficial for the natural environment and human beings. The amount of the rubbish we create and dump into the environment is rapidly increasing everyday, which is having a horrendous effect on the environment, resulting in global warming and the increase in temperature rise.

The reasons why we are creating more waste are due to; increase in wealth, therefore we have more money to buy products, resulting in more waste. Increase in population means, there are more people creating waste. New packaging and technological products are being developed, much of these products contain materials that are not biodegradable.

Living a greener lifestyle feels complicated. But you can start with the easy steps and make a real difference, even if it’s a small one at first.

Let’s start with your light fixtures. As your light bulbs die, replace them with compact fluorescent light bulbs. These cost more at the store but use less energy and last up to 10 times longer, so they can be well worth the money. These are much better than the old fluorescent bulbs which had an awkward greenish cast and slight flicker at times.

No, we’re not talking about the Wii - the latest must-have games console from Nintendo - but European Union legislation. The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) 2006 directive concerns the responsible disposal of electrical and computer equipment by companies and individuals, and is now enshrined in European Law. The Environment Agency sums it up thus: “This directive aims to reduce the amount of WEEE being produced and encourages everyone to reuse, recycle and recover it.” The purpose of the directive is to protect the “soil, water and air against pollution through better disposal of waste and electrical and electronic equipment. It also stimulates the reuse, recycling and other forms of recovery of such wastes so as to reduce the disposal of waste.”