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While fears are growing about the increasing death toll from swine flu, there is also increasing concerns about the side effects of Tamiflu.
Tamiflu is the powerful anti-viral drug being used to treat swine flu.  It is now being taken as a preventative, in spite of warnings from some experts that this could increase resistance of the virus. But latest figures [...]

Do you know how much electricity all your appliances use? What difference does it make if you leave the computer on all day, or how much does it cost to boil a kettle of water.
Did you know you can get a tiny energy monitor that will show you exactly how much energy is being used in [...]

Now is the time to start thinking about what to do once the holiday season is over. Why not take a course at your local adult community learning centre?There are courses of all types to choose from - something for everyone. And if you fancy trying something in the Health and Fitness arena you will be spoilt [...]

Sometimes one really does wonder what the point of the Food Standards Agency is. Surely their role is to ensure the food we eat is as healthy and wholesome as possible? It seems not.
The FSA have recently reported that organic food has no superior nutrient value than conventionally grown food.  But they have totally failed [...]

SHARON WATSON <harmonyforlife@btinternet.com>
Subject: Therapy Couch for sale
To:
Date: Tuesday, 21 July, 2009, 1:16 PM
Sharon Watson is selling a therapy couch. It is a basic design but comfortable: white with aluminium base and legs. £40. contact Sharon on 07930 147909 if interested.

South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is making a DVD about caring and carers for staff training. The Trust wants to open it with service users and patients delivering a message of thanks to their carers, straight to camera! The purpose is to underline how important carers and caring are and personal statements make this vivid [...]

Two women give their totally different views about the breast screening programme in this weeks Mail Health Newsletter.
CLICK HERE to read this excellent article.

Please spend five minutes watching this You-Tube video.
Listen to the message of this 12 year old girl who silenced the world at the United Nations conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0 
She speaks for a generation of children who see adults destroying the world and wonder what legacy of environmental destruction will be left for their own children!

“I opened my Council compost recycling bin this morning and discovered these inside the lid.  Can you tell me what they are please.” writes Margaret Elsden who lives on the Essex / Suffolk border.
“I guess the green one is either a cricket or grasshopper, but what is the other one?” Margaret had photgraphed the creature [...]

Now that Camp Bling, in Southend, Essex, have successfully secured the cancellation of controversial Priory Crescent road widening scheme, plans are already underway as to what to do with the area.
The patch of land has already delivered a host of treasure, after excavations done by the Museum of London found the burial chamber of a [...]