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  • The Prince of Wales calls for a broader definition of health HRH The Prince of Wales has called for society to embrace a broader and more complex concept of health. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, The Prince describes a vision of health that includes the physical and social environment, education,…

  • FHT HQ will be closed from 5.00pm on Friday 21st December to 9.00am on Wednesday 2nd January 2013. Happy holidays to you all! Image: FHT

  • FHT Vice-president, John Brazier, appears in asiaSpa India magazine following his presentation at the International Wellness Summit, India (September 2012).

    FHT Vice-president, John Brazier, appears in asiaSpa India magazine following his presentation at the International Wellness Summit, India (September 2012).

  • Glitter lips are great to add a little shimmer for evening Christmas and New Year parties. (via http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG9705766/Beauty-how-to-glitter-lips.html)

  • FHT contributed to an article published in Natural Health (January 2013) that offers advice about training as a complementary therapist. Full article Image: Natural Health

  • An editorial in the British Medical Journal discusses longevity in former Olympic athletes, and stresses that “meeting recommended levels of physical activity is as important to global health as not smoking, and inactivity contributes to more than five million deaths a year, more than obesity.” Full article Image: iStockphoto

  • From December 3 at the new and improved beauty hall, John Lewis Oxford Street will be the first to offer something a little more retrospective this Christmas with complimentary Bygone Beauty Tutorials, as inspired by television series Downton Abbey and Great Expectations. (via http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG9710714/Downton-Abbey-inspired-make-up-lessons.html)

  • Global colour company Pantone has named emerald the Colour of the Year for 2013. In colour cosmetics, emerald is said to dramatise all eye colours, enhancing green eyes, intensifying brown eyes, emphasising the green tones in hazel eyes, and complementing blues. Toning with peach, rose, ruby and aubergine shades, the colour opens up a number…

  • Illamasqua‘s School of Make-up Art, is running a series of short make-up classes, completely free of charge with their new Beauty School Drop-in. Pop along to their Beak Street flagship store in London or the Leeds store on Sunday, 16th December for food, wine and festive make-up tips! (via http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG9743126/Illamasquas-party-season-school-of-beauty.html)

  • Noroviruses are Britain’s most common cause of infectious gastroenteritis, also known as “winter vomiting disease” or “stomach flu”. – NHS Choices Along with the joyous holiday festivities of Christmas, winter is the season for cold, flu and the dreaded norovirus or ‘sickness bug’. According the Health Protection Agency’s latest figures, the 2012 norovirus outbreak is already…

  • Fitness faux pas risks spread of infection UK exercisers are putting their health at risk as we head into the ‘cold and flu season’ due to their lack of understanding about good gym hygiene, according to new figures released today by Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity. The new research on Fitness Etiquette reveals…

  • The Sri Lankan government has drawn up a healthy menu for monks, as reported by BBC News Asia. This new healthy menu follows a reported increase in diet-related diseases due to the high cholesterol content of offerings from Buddhist devotees. Traditionally monks do not cook and depend on donations given by devotees. The BBC’s Charles…