Exploring Yoga Therapy Initiative Trends 2023 As yoga continues to grow as a wildly popular practice, the most prominent trend for 2023 sees an increasing differentiation between yoga and yoga therapy, a practice that shares yoga’s overall purpose while focusing on its clinical and therapeutic applications. This practice is being integrated in many different health and wellness settings, like the US Department of Veterans Affairs,…
Must-reads from the Wellness World (July 26th, 2023)
Floods, heat, smoke: The weather will never be normal again–The New York Times, July 12, 2023 The first sentence says it all: “Global warming is accelerating, with temperatures not just rising but rising faster than ever.” Progressively, once-in-a-thousand-years climate events are becoming the norm, but as human beings we are incredibly adaptable, and recent research suggests we may come to accept weather extremes as normal within…
Intermittent Fasting and Calorie Counting Equally Effective for Weight Loss–But Former Easier to Adhere To
A new, year-long study (University of Illinois) compared the impact on weight loss of a compressed eating day (between noon and 8 PM) vs. cutting calories by 25% each day (and having to constantly count them). The finding: It’s just as effective to watch the clock as it is to watch what you eat. Both groups lost about 5% of their body weight after a…
GDP For Wellbeing or Wellbeing For GDP?
GDP For Wellbeing or Wellbeing For GDP? By Thierry Malleret, economist The sustained recent US economic outperformance (measured in terms of GDP per capita) has prompted many commentators to extol the virtues of the US system, with new laments in Europe about the continent falling behind. This new atmosphere raises again the question of how to measure a country’s welfare, both from an economic and…
The Future of Food: 4 Disruptions to Watch
Backslash, the cultural intelligence unit of TBWA\Worldwide (one of the world’s top advertising agencies) just released its “Future of Food” report. Food isn’t just an industry, it’s a key ingredient in how we treat our planet and how we connect with one another: We can build a much better world through food. Throughout the report, health and wellness are central. Key trends include: “Food RX,”…
Gallup: Globally, Employees Are More Engaged—and More Stressed
Gallup undertakes the only representative sampling of the world’s workforce (surveying 160,000 a year). Their latest study has good and bad news: Employees are now more engaged at work but also feel much more stress. Engagement findings: The percentage of engaged employees globally rose from 2021 to 2022. Starting as low as 12%, the percentage of engaged employees has risen to 23%. That’s a disturbingly low…
