The GWI just released a “Wellness in the Age of COVID-19” Q&A with Amaya Becvar Weddle, PhD and VP, Research & Product Marketing, Mindbody, a leading tech platform for the wellness industry. Her research team has been undertaking important surveys on how the pandemic is changing wellness businesses and consumers. Weddle discusses: How profound the shift to digital fitness and wellness has been during the…
There are zillions of reasons why some countries have (so far) successfully dealt with the pandemic, while others have not. These causal elements are so intricate and interdependent that they cannot be disentangled from each other, but for the sake of shedding some light on this, let us offer three intriguing, emerging correlations underlying relative success. They may seem simplistic, but they say something and…
‘Long overdue’: lawmakers declare racism a public health emergency – Guardian, June 12, 202 Long before the George Floyd tragedy, and long before COVID-19 began killing black people at twice the rate of their white counterparts, health experts were raising alarms that systemic racism is itself a deadly pandemic—one that kills both instantaneously and insidiously, burdens black and brown Americans with generational trauma, contributes to…
In this edition of the Wellness Q&A Series Beth McGroarty, VP, Research & Forecasting, Global Wellness Institute asks: Just how profound has the digital shift in fitness and wellness been under COVID-19? Will video kill the studio star? What do people demand from spas, salons, and beauty businesses as they reopen? Q&A with Amaya Becvar Weddle, Ph.D., Vice President, Research & Product Marketing, Mindbody,…
It’s easy to get off course and into unhealthy behaviors during a pandemic. To make changes in life, we need to disrupt automatic routines, as research says approximately 45 percent of our everyday behaviors are done without much intention or conscious control. For June, The Wellness Moonshot offers seven practices to cultivate the best conditions to achieve new wellness goals.
A new study published at Cambridge Open Engage (allowing research to be disseminated before it’s peer-reviewed and officially published) studied people who were meeting, or not, the recommended 150 minutes/week of moderate exercise during the pandemic and their reported emotional state. Those physically active during lockdown were significantly less depressed and more mentally resilient than those whose activity levels had declined—with the most striking effects…
