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Products and Services Kids walk for diabetes
you can trust
A youngster who will be walking the length of Thamesdown Drive to
• Home Insurance designed especially for mark her sixth birthday wants more people to join her to raise money
the over 50s
• Car Insurance with no hidden extra costs for Swindon Children with Insulin Dependent Diabetes (SCWIDD).
• Motor Breakdown Services from only Holly Trayor, who appeared
£59 † on the front page last month,
• Funeral plans
• Travel Insurance with no upper age limit was diagnosed with diabetes
• Gas & Electricity supplies from in February after months of
Age Concern Energy Services feeling tired and declining
• Aid Call emergency alarm service health.
For more information contact: Eventually her condition
Age Concern Swindon
1 Milton Road, Swindon, SN1 5JE was diagnosed and she now
Open: Mon to Fri 10am - 4pm has to inject insulin twice a
01793 692166 day to maintain the right blood
Please quote Ref: ALL700 sugar levels.
Mum Charley, from Red-
† For vehicles under 11 years old.
Any Age Concern detailed above is a registered charity.
A47V5APR08 MC1265 house, said. “Holly loved see-
ing her picture in the October
Link and I’ve had lots of calls
and parents in the playground
Shrivenham Travel Clinic at Red Oaks Primary saying Holly and Kane, walking for diabetes
they want to take part.
“I’ve since discovered that Chilcott, 11, who was diagnosed
Travelling abroad? November is Diabetes Awareness with diabetes at the same time.
Need advice or vaccinations? Month so we’ll be raising money for He has been asked to give a talk at
SCWIDD and also promoting what Isambard School.
We offer a high quality, convenient it’s like to live with diabetes.” The Thamesdown Drive trek
service for all of your overseas As a result of the article Holly and takes place during half term on
travel health needs Charley were invited onto Swindon Tuesday 4 November. To take part
Community Radio - 105.5fm. or offer sponsorship call Charley
Holly will be walking with Kane Traynor on 0791 737 1227.
To arrange an appointment
please telephone 01793 787462 Lighten up with Lumie lamps
Win the chance to ward off the winter blues
www.shrivenhamtravelclinic.co.uk
Waking to sunlight streaming through the windows is guaranteed to lift
the spirits, but after a cloudy summer and a barely passable Autumn,
many people might be wondering why they don’t feel quite right.
The grim news from the financial
markets and future job prospects is
bad enough, but one of the causes of
feeling off colour could be Seasonal
Affective Disorder (SAD).
Sunshine is a natural mood-
booster, influencing the body's
chemistry and making people feel
more awake and positive. In con-
trast, the cold, grey winter days can
result in the blues for some people,
and some bright light treatment
could lift their mood.
Thankfully it is possible to recre-
ate that bright start to the day even
in the depths of the British winter.
Lighting company Lumie makes a
Bodyclock Dawn Simulator which
wakes you with a gradually bright- light deprivation.
ening light, like sunrise, which acts It is estimated that 5 million
as a natural cue for the body to people in the UK suffer from
reduce the levels of sleep hormones SAD or the milder version, win-
and gradually increase the levels ter blues. Increasing numbers of
of get up and go hormones such GPs recommend light therapy to
as cortisol. patients suffering with SAD but
Waking with light every day will anti-depressants are still the most
help reset the sleep/wake cycle and common treatment. Trials found it
has been shown to boost mood, as effective as Prozac but results
productivity and energy levels for were quicker and there were no side
the rest of the day. effects from light therapy.
Lumie have pioneered dawn www.lumie.com www.sad.uk.com
simulation and have been work-
ing in the field of light therapy for Win a Bodyclock Dawn
17 years. They produce a range of Simulator. Find out more at:
products including light boxes and www.swindonlink.com
visors which can be used to treat

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