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Will it be new shoes or my prescription medicine?

By , Friday, 26 June 2009, 1 Comment
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We all know we have to make cut-backs in a recession. I’ve had a ‘staycation’ and I’ve been walking the long route home to avoid going past Waitrose. I’ve even been trying very hard to pick baked beans over a (cue M&S voice): connoisseur Scottish Lochmuir salmon, king prawns and terrine platter.

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Dealing with life’s stresses in a recession

By , Thursday, 19 March 2009, Be the first to comment
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I am in the midst of trying to move house – and it’s quite a stressful business. Tomorrow will find me plodding the streets of south London in an effort to find a flat or house that lives up to my high standards.

Moving house is one of the most stressful things in life apparently, the others being work, debt, loneliness and relationship problems, according to WikiAnswers.

It strikes me that, stressful as these five these things are, they are all made significantly worse by being in the midst of a recession. Indeed, my own search for somewhere to live has been more fraught than perhaps it should have been (we first started looking to move over a year and a half ago and had to put the whole thing on hold when the housing bubble burst).

Yesterday, figures showed that unemployment had jumped by a record amount and that more than two million people are now out of work. Newspapers are always keen to put a figure on things, and statistics are constantly bandied around to show just how bad the economic crisis is.

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The recession is bad for our health

By , Thursday, 19 February 2009, Be the first to comment
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The recession is clearly bad for our health. Not only are GPs and nurses probably seeing increasing numbers of patients attending the surgery with stress-related complaints, patients are also likely to be getting fatter as well.

During these credit crunch times it is unsurprising that people are worried about money and their jobs, but perhaps a surprising knock-on effect has been a boom in the consumption of fast food. It seems that some well-known fast food chains are really benefiting from our attempts to curb our spending.

Earlier this week KFC announced that it was to create 9,000 new jobs in the UK and open up to 300 new restaurants as part of a £150m investment. The company’s chief executive believes part of its success is down to attracting shoppers who are trading down from more expensive food.

Meanwhile, business at Domino’s Pizza is also booming as the UK population eschews treating themselves for a night out at a fancy restaurant and opts for a takeaway at home instead.

This, coupled with the news that organic food sales are down, suggests that our diets may be getting worse. The recession is not only having an adverse affect on our wallets, it’s probably going to cause our waistlines to bulge as well. Yet another piece of news to add to the recession gloom…

 

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Could young people benefit from the credit crunch?

By , Wednesday, 7 January 2009, 1 Comment
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Lots of people have been looking for the silver lining in the black cloud of our dismal economic outlook. Positive thinkers everywhere – and those who simply disliked the selfish, consumerist, celebrity-obsessed nature of the late 20th and early 21st century – have been tempering doom and gloom with promises of a more cohesive society.

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Revealed: Gordon Brown’s new year resolution for 2009

By , Monday, 29 December 2008, Be the first to comment
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I have just emerged, blinking and certainly less sane, from underneath a pile of newspapers going back to Boxing Day armed only with a pair of scissors and cuts of the most notable health stories.

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