If you’ve been the victim of an accident and you feel some-one else was at fault then there are a number of things you should do if you think you are going to need to make a claim for lost earnings, expenses, distress and to ensure that a similar misfortune doesn’t befall some-one else.

First of all, get the contact details of any witnesses. Unless the accident was a serious road accident they are unlikely to have to give up any of their time attending court, far more likely that they just have to write a statement detailing what they saw. If there was no one around or nobody stops to give you their contact details take photos. Even if it’s just a few snaps on your phone, this evidence is better than none at-all.

Call The Cops!

You should always call the police to any road traffic accident and if this was the incident you were involved in, make sure you get an incident number from the investigating officer. If you have to go to hospital make sure you get a full examination from the doctor treating you. Some injuries only show up after an interval but a doctor will know what to look out for. Again, photograph any bruises or lesions that appear on your body as a result of your accident. If you have to go to court to contest your case and your injuries have all healed photographs are compelling evidence to present to a court.

Keep Records Of Everything That Happens

Keep all of your receipts for everything that you have to pay for as a result of your injuries. If your claim is going to be successful at recouping your losses thanks to the injuries you received having a vague idea about the bills you’ve paid isn’t going to be as convincing as printed evidence for medicines and painkillers, buses and cabs if you’ve been left unable to drive, car rental if you can but your own vehicle is no longer road-worthy. You might have to take on childcare while you attend treatment and physiotherapy, again, keep the receipts.

The entire point of compensation is that you recoup the money that you lose thanks to an injury that was the responsibility of some-one else, either due to their negligence, their lack of foresight or their lack of attention. If you can’t prove how much the accident has cost you, you can’t expect to be fully compensated.

@DanCash is a features writer on the south coast of England. If you need to make a no win no fee accident claim make sure you keep as much evidence as you can and consult a reputable lawyer

A poll of 3,000 younger people in 29 towns and cities throughout the UK it was found that they were more likely to order more food than they really needed and then feel the most guilty when they were unable to finish their meals. Unilever, who own PG Tips, Knorr and Marmite commissioned the survey, conducted by OnePoll which also found that 80% of those surveyed would decline food they knew they wouldn’t eat if asked at a restaurant.

Would You Like To Go Small With That?

If your service staff ask “would you like a large or small portion?” or whether there’s anything the customer would prefer left out then the results show that 80% of diners would let them know if they weren’t ebbing away on the point of starvation!

This is borne out by another research poll, similarly commissioned by Unilever which found that 82% of diners said that they thought it was important that restaurants, pubs and grilles should cut down on the amount of foods which went into landfill sites because of the wasteful practices of the industry. Both reports are being published as part of a campaign by industry leaders which is designed to encourage everyone in the food sector to reduce the amount of waste which they throw away each year.

Put Food Wastage Under WRAPs

The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) said that the amount of food being thrown away each year is worth around £770,000,000 per year. The more that waste is cut down the more money stays in the tills.

Unilever put the cost higher, if you calculate the amount of food that is thrown away at all levels of production then the figure which they believe would be more accurate is around £2.3 billion per year.

Andy Dawe from WRAP said: “tackling food waste can provide significant business savings for the hospitality industry. WRAP is starting to work closely with businesses to help realise these cost savings and eliminate food wastage wherever possible.

Not only did the research papers find that people wanted less food on their plates, 40% said that they would pay a premium to eat in a restaurant which had a commitment to reducing the amount of food was wasted. 30% said that they felt food waste was the responsibility of caterers to deal with in terms of reduction, a fringe element of 4% believed that it was the government’s responsibility to deal with waste food.

Taking The Battle From The Home Front To The High Street

Unilever say that the results show that the emphasis on reducing food waste is moving from the domestic to the commercial and pressure was increasing for restaurants, be they chippies, burger and pizza chains or hotels and Michelin Starred establishments to reduce the amount of waste that goes into their bins at the end of each shift.

MD of Unilever Food Solutions; Tracey Rogers said that: “We know that the government is committed to moving toward a zero waste society and our actions are going to be under the spotlight. We have the opportunity to take the initiative, and with small, everyday steps, we can reduce waste, respond to consumer concerns, improve kitchen efficiency and help caterers save money too.”

@DanCash Loves a takeaway in Croydon where he lives. Get a big old Chinese takeaway in Croydon and you’ve got lunch the next day. If you’re eating out, why not ask for a doggy bag?

While car insurance companies are increasingly becoming drawn into this kind of case with accident victims claiming whiplash and back injuries, injuries which are very hard for doctors to identify and prove one way or another, this would appear to be the case. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to personal injury claims.

The chancellor wants to cut legal aid not only from divorce cases which are being contested but also from people who’ve been victims of medical negligence and people who wish to sue their local NHS Trust or the local authority.

The logic is easy to see; if the government pays for people to sue a hospital or council it’s effectively paying the court to sue itself and in many cases the award which the victim receives is far outstripped by the legal costs which are awarded against the guilty party. If this happens to be the hospital for example, the injured party might get a couple of hundred pounds for their distress and loss of earnings if they had to take a week or two off work but the legal teams might receive several thousands of pounds for their fees.

While this seems unfair and reasonable to stop paying for it, the reality of these circumstances is concealed. If you’re injured and you believe it’s down to a public sector employee’s negligence, if you can’t afford to sue them out of your own pocket then the costs of your medical treatment beyond the basic provision that the NHS and benefits services will have to be covered out of your own pocket. You might be entitled to statutory sick pay or disability allowance but anything beyond the basic will have to be covered out of your savings.

So you’re paying for an injury caused you by some-one else and they carry on regardless, possibly putting many more people at risk.

So, by cutting the number of cases for which legal aid is granted doesn’t just save the government money, it prevents the less well off from achieving justice when they find themselves unable to work through no fault of their own.

And personal injury cases aren’t simply about the victim getting some cash for their inconvenience. Personal injury claims can and do highlight criminal negligence and circumstances where the culprit is systematically endangering public health and even exposing them to the risk of permanent disability or death. Cutting spending on these cases will mean that people will be able to operate negligently until there is a catastrophe.

@DanCash is a feature writer living on the south coast. If you’re injured either at work, out on the street or you want to pursue a holiday accident claim or when receiving medical care then you should in the first instance consult a personal injury lawyer. If you want to make a compensation claim then get in touch with a reputable no-win-no-fee lawyer.

But that’s just the price we have to pay for convenience foods, right? Healthy food is cooked over a long time so if you want fast food, healthy’s not an option. But is that necessarily so?

Perhaps not.

If you dial out and get food delivered or drive out to the drive thru or the walk up and queue, order, wait, drive home it could still take you twenty or thirty minutes before you get your dinner. Well, I can cook a whole dinner in thirty minutes from fresh so, not that quick is it? Just not terribly healthy. If you cook the same thing that you ordered at home it generally works out cheaper (if you shop sensibly to begin with) healthier and in the same time. You know what’s in the food, how fresh it is and where it came from and that it’s all been properly stored and handled. A butcher wouldn’t sell you a joint that was going grey but who knows how old the meat is that gets made into a burger or indeed what sort of meat it is.

Cooking at home seems pricier because when you get your cart to the checkout the cost for a week, ten days or even more is all right there in front of you. Shop smart, take advantage of deals and offers and while the bill might still be bigger than is altogether welcome but compared against a weeks worth of takeaways you’re saving money and eating well. Wandering around the shop floor gives you a work out too so it’s a win win win situation!

There are specific ways that you can enjoy food that’s healthy, home cooked and fast, first of all, plan what you’re going to eat and shop accordingly. Wandering the aisles with no clue what you want will mean getting bored, buying too much and still not having anything that you want. If you know what you’re going to cook you know what to buy, when you get it all home, cook it! You don’t have to make the whole meal but prepping all the things you’re going to want right away will mean not having to do it on the day. Roast that chicken, it’ll keep in the fridge for days and you can put it in sandwiches, wraps, curry, whatever and because it’s already cooked it just has to heat through.

Oh wait, it’s OK the US Department of Agriculture says that fast food restaurants have to put up notices advising you of the food’s calorie count and the nutritional value alongside the USDA’s recommendations for a healthy diet. True, but independent research has shown that the restaurant’s estimates, far from being average, consistently underestimate the calorific content by about a hundred. And basing the choice of what to eat on calories alone is unwise. Factoring the overall size of the meal, the protein, starch, carbs and salt should all be considerations when picking your diet.

Some things that you’d assume are healthy are in fact worse than the traditional ‘bad’ foods. Several chains offer salads that come with dressings and sauces that end up meaning you’ll be eating more fat, sodium and sugar than if you went for the burger after all. A problem that wouldn’t occur if you made the meal at home, and who hasn’t got time to throw a salad together?

@DanCash is a feature writer who loves to grab the occasional takeaway in Fulham on the way home or get a pizza delivery in Southwark but only as an occasional treat or when there really is no time to cook.

People like their familiar foods, so home cooking is always popular but people also regard take-away food as a treat and getting a treat like a takeaway meal brings some cheer when you’re suffering. Those used to be the reasons but now it seems that hospital kitchens are such a health hazard that the only really safe way to eat in hospital is to have it delivered! In the worst of these cases a hospital in Cumbria managed to rack up almost 20 contraventions of environmental health directives including broken bins, damp on the walls and dirty surfaces. Despite the failings the kitchens were still awarded a three star ‘good’ rating by the Copeland borough council ‘Scores on the Doors’ inspectors.

‘Scores on the Doors’ is a scheme whereby scores are awarded to commercial and public kitchens and the award is then posted in the front of the premises so that any-one entering is able to see immediately how they performed. Despite the fact that inspectors found 19 breaches in food hygiene during two visits to the hospital kitchens Alan Davidson, estates and facilities manager at the West Cumberland Hospital said that: “All issues raised by Copeland Borough Council’s environmental health team leaders in their routine reports dated September 2010 and April 2011 have been addressed. “This will be demonstrated at the next scheduled inspection of the West Cumberland Hospital which we envisage being in September 2011.”

If you went into a hotel to stay and you found out that although the kitchen making your meals and sending up room service had scored an acceptable ‘good’ rating (not amazing but still…) the food is prepared in a kitchen which broke 19 of the Environmental Health’s guidelines for food hygiene you wouldn’t be impressed and would probably choose not to put too much weight in the ‘Scores on the Doors’ scheme ever again as well as eating out for the rest of your stay.

Now if you found yourself in hospital imaging how much less impressed you’d be. People at risk of infection and contamination are lined up in bed expecting the care and treatment that we in the First World have come to expect thanks to the tradition of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole’s efforts in the Crimea war. And what do they get? A menu which is designed around a budget rather than nutritional requirements of the patients prepared in an area which is, by any other standard, unfit. The inspectors found out of date food, peeling paint, filthy floors and storage racks among the list of faults. @dancash is a feature writer living in the south of England. To keep his kitchen and all his crockery clean he uses a Bosch dishwasher and keeps the kitchen taps and other surfaces clean by wiping them down before and after he’s used them. Thanks to this he hasn’t seen the inside of a hospital in years!

Yet surgery is no longer the only efficient anti aging resolution that people can pick from. There are numerous manners that will assist seniors to appear youthful looking naturally!

Skim the following guide on the assumption that you wish to unearth how to be more youthful without cosmetic surgery. Besides, you will also identify whether natural skin rejuvenation gels (consider looking at this anti-aging cream for instance) really are as efficient as particular sellers insist they are.

Makeup Could Take Few Years Off Your Appearance

Do you know that lots of aged females take advantage of makeup experts to appear younger and gorgeous longer?

These will probably take some time until you take course on how to put into use anti aging make-up utterly.

The good news is that it comes over much more easier after you acquire first few teachings and perceive precisely what works great for your. Im sure that you will be amazed with the betterment!

Ward Off From Spending Hours On The Sun Rays

We as human beings need sun rays to live normally and be healthy and happy. Disastrously, sun becoming increasingly hazardous for your body. Too much exposure to sunshine could thereupon be extremely critical for the appearance of your skin.

Not only could you hazard getting skin diseases, but such things could also increase aging processes of your body. As follows, be certain to restrict the time you waste exposed to the sunrays to the minimum!

Enjoy Healthy Foods Only And Consume Lots Of H2O

Granted that you would like to sustain beautiful and youthful body image, you need to make sure it is sufficiently hydrated. For that reason, you need to make sure to take in liquid at worst seven full cups of H2O every day.

Likewise, your eating habits have to be healthy as well.

Consuming canned foods evidently doesnt cooperate with anti aging. Fruits and vegetable plants, on the other side, are best for your health and well being as such foods furnish your skin required nutrients.

Take Advantage Of Natural Anti Aging Product That Is Effective

Most age enhancement topicals that you can buy dont provide you with promised effects. Yet, there are oils that can perform miracles for your looks and beauty.

Proven to work antiaging topical could not just delay age process in your body, but can also service to diminish age spots on your face and neck naturally.

Check this out: where to buy zsa zsa products to spot my top rated antiaging oil. Both adult guys and ladies could apply it to look fresh nonsurgically. Even celebrity stars such as Kim Kardashian adore it as it is risk-free and very fast!

With that said, this progression differs for each person.

The number one things which control the ratio at which women and men become old-looking are eating habits, sport activity and genetics.

Why people lose youthful appearance?

During your chilhood, pituitary gland excretes specific quantity of so called HGH. As you grow older, the excretion of growth hormone starts abating. Many experts suggest that deterioration in HGH is directly linked to the development of fine lines, as well as disappearance of muscles and diminutions in energy levels.

Top age defying techniques

Apparently, cosmetic surgery isn’t the sole method to preserve your beautiful looks today. Age spots and other unattractive effects of growing older may be eliminated using organic treatments as well.

Creams

Age rejuvenation creams filled with antioxidants, vitamins E, A or C, retinoic acid or fruit acids are famous for assisting you to eliminate the effects of getting older and secure you with beautiful and healty looking skin appearance.

Still, clinical studies by one anti-aging research institute has not so long ago declared that anti-ageing oils can’t stop human skin from developing wrinkles in spite of the supplements they can pass to your skin.

HGH Products

Ranging from injections to tablets to nasal sprays to releasers, studies have discovered that growth hormone therapy is the only treatment that can help subjects look visibly more youthful.

However even in this niche, depending on the way these HGH products are taken, some are more efficient than others.

Let us explain:

HGH Injections

Made from the synthetic HGH hormone somatropin, these injections are not only seriously expensive ($20,000 per year) but are assosciated with a lot of dangers.

The problem occurs because your body acknowledges the somatropin as a foreign hormone. Therefore, these injections trigger a number of bad side effects: heart attacks, liver damage, kidney damage and bad allergic reactions.

HGH Releasers

Easily the safest HGH product, HGH releasers work by naturally stimulating HGH production insider your pituitary gland.

As your HGH levels grow you will see a reduction in wrinkles, improved muscle definition, stronger immunity, an improved metabolism and increased fat loss.

HGH Pills

Despite their good design, the goodness found within these capsules is often lost before it has had a chance to help as it is destroyed during digestion.

Which solution can offer you the most benefits?

From oils to injections to capsules, the surest way to beat aging is by using organic HGH releasers such as HGH Advanced, which can rapidly and efficiently re-ignite your pituitary gland without forcing you to ingest artificially created hormones.

100% natural and accessible without prescription, HGH Advanced has been found through detailed scientific trials to overcome the onset of aging without triggering any negative side effects.

And supported by a 180 day refund policy, should you discover after 90 days it has not helped, HGH Advanced will give you an extra 3 months to ask for a refund – meaning you will not waste your hard earned money.

While it’s convenient and invariably tasty there are inherent problems of course, we all know about the saturated fats, sugars, salt and over-processed wheat flour that’s used to make the irresistible goodies. We know that consuming a diet solely of fast food is bad for us not only physically but mentally too, the brain can become addicted to the pleasure hormones that fast food releases making it ever harder to get back to eating a healthy diet, then, once hooked and the weight problems ensue, the psychological harm that’s caused by overweight and the social stigma cannot be overestimated.

However, in an economy that’s anything but fat the temptation to get cheap, quick food can often verge on the irresistible, but, as an intelligent and informed consumer, how can you make the best choices when it comes to what to eat?

Quick Fix, Not Long Term Harm

Well, some experts say you can’t. And when you look at the facts it’s hard to argue: a Big Mac, regular fries and Coke provides 2/3 of your recommended daily intake of fat, 1.5g of transfat when doctors say you shouldn’t eat any and 111g of sugar, you should be eating 50-100g. A Whopper, medium fries and Coke has 62 of the 65 grams of fat that you should eat in a day, 88g of the sugar but only 88g of the 50-100 grams of sugar, just scraping under the wire but only leaving room for 12 more grams through the day.

Obviously, taking a large option, adding extra cheese will make the stats even worse. So what’s the answer.

Your grandma knows, didn’t she always tell you that you could have “everything in moderation?” Of course that old wisdom is right, you can sate your carnal urges to devour a burger or hotdog, whatever provided you only eat it occasionally, don’t let it become a habit. So, while finding a healthy meal when you drop into a fast food joint might be tricky and often a little more expensive than the unhealthy options, there are choices out there just remember to be good!

How Can You Make The Right Choices When Standing In Line?

If you’re already in line you’re basically walking through a minefield of unhealthy options but paying attention to the descriptions on the menu can help you find your way, obviously anything fried is going to be fattier than grilled or poached, if it comes in a creamy sauce, Alfredo, au gratin or breaded it’s going to be aswim in lard: Avoid!

Drinking water or fruit juice with your food can cut out a calamitous calorie count, water and juice are better for you than all the sugar that comes in sodas, they won’t contain caffeine and sugar free is a myth. Colas which claim to have zero sugar are coloured with caramel, which is made out of pure… Sugar!

Eat your food undressed, nudity helps you lose calories! But seriously, dressings for salads are usually oil and salt with a little vinegar or egg yolk, cheese or cream thrown in. Ask for your salads undressed (te he, oh I need to grow up!) and get separate sachets of dressing so you’re in control of how much goes on.

Ordering off menu is a good tip too, Burger king used to insist: “Want it your way? You got it!” so ask for grilled rather than fried, ask for no dressing, get extra salad and no cheese, get dressings on the side. You;ll make yourself distinctly unpopular if you try this during a busy lunch service or at a movie that’s just opening but try it when it’s quiet, you’ll be surprised how much healthier it can be.

Finally, think about what you’re eating. Think about what’s in you mouth with every bite, think about where it came from, remember to stop eating when you’re full,  avoid ordering just because you’re in a hurry and think about other, healthier food you could be eating instead.

Dan Cash is a feature writer who loves having the occasional Chinese takeaway in Ealing where he now lives, but not too many. If you’re after pizza, Milton Keynes has some great restaurants offering fresh, healthy pies