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Workplace wellness – spa days can help cut stress

Workplace wellness – spa days can help cut stress

By Maggie • on January 14, 2010

A new study in the United States has shown that workplace wellness programmes deliver major benefits for companies investing in them. For example, they are a highly effective way of reducing the major risk factors for heart disease by encouraging workers to be pro-active in protecting their own health. This can be achieved through quitting smoking,

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Sleep easy during spa weekends

Sleep easy during spa weekends

By Beth • on March 8, 2010

Good news has emerged for anyone who occasionally has to face a sleep-starved period of frenetic activity on the home or work front, as a recent study

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Cleopatra’s beauty treatments – the eyes have it

Cleopatra’s beauty treatments – the eyes have it

By Anna • on February 24, 2010

If you’ve ever seen the film Cleopatra, you’ll almost certainly remember the charismatic eye make-up worn by Elizabeth Taylor, who played the

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Spa holidays – try something different this Easter

Spa holidays – try something different this Easter

By Maggie • on March 9, 2010

If you’ve already had your fill – whether literally or metaphorically speaking – of the ubiquitous chocolate creations currently adorning

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Could “rational thinking” solve the nation’s weight problems?

Glance at any photo taken during or after the Second World War and you’ll rarely see a chubby-cheeked cherub gazing out at you.  And there’s an easy explanation for this: war rationing meant

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Gifts for mum: P is for present … and for pampering

Modern life is so busy, lived at such a frenetic pace, that it’s hard to find time to fit in the extras – even when those extras are a high priority – such as finding a perfect gift for

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Gifts for mums – mum’s the word down at the spa

You know just how much you love and adore your mum, and how much you appreciate everything she does for you. But does she know it? One way of reminding her in no uncertain terms is to organise a mother’s

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Spa days – the perfect escape for worn-out parents

Getting used to being a first-time mum is an experience that can be wonderful, challenging, rewarding and exhausting in equal measure. You only need to look at the tired faces of most mums (and sometimes

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