It’s widely believed that people put on weight in middle age because their metabolisms slow down and that women have slower metabolisms than men, and menopause makes things worse (which is why women struggle with weight issues). A large, new study (6,500 people) indicates that those assumptions are flat-out wrong. Rather than metabolism slowing in middle age, there are four distinct phases of metabolic change:…
Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on western diet–The Guardian, January 9, 2022 Globally, autoimmune diseases (ranging from type 1 diabetes to rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis) are rising by between 3% to 9% a year, even in countries where they did not exist before. This seems to be correlated with the rate of adoption of western-style diets and specifically fast food, which…
Work-from-Home Drives Real Estate Shifts: Major Inflation for In-Nature “Wellness Locations” By Thierry Malleret, economist Stay-at-home and hybrid working are here to stay. For those with a profession allowing them to do so, 2-3 days a week working from home is becoming the norm. The consequences of this radical shift will be manifold. Three shifts stand out: (1) Cities will continue to thrive, but high-end…
Industry Research: The Spa Market Spa Industry Expected to Surpass Pre-Pandemic Revenues in 2022–Reaching $122 Billion The GWI’s new report on the global wellness economy includes in-depth data on the spa industry, a “high-touch” market that was therefore a major “pandemic loser,” but which is forecast to be one of the top-three fastest-growing wellness markets through 2025. If the market reached a record $111 billion…
Our attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen–The Guardian,January 2, 2022 Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. Our capacity to pay attention is under attack and at the breaking point, but while we still can, we need to reclaim our minds. In this extract from the just-published Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, author Johann Hari argues…
New Data on Wellness Tourism: Projected to Hit $817 Billion This Year, $1.3 Trillion in 2025 The GWI’s new report on the global wellness economy includes eye-opening new data on the wellness travel market. It has the big picture numbers: In the pre-pandemic year of 2019, wellness tourism reached a record $720 billion, but then took a devastating hit in the pandemic year…
