Catching Up on Sleep on Weekends Associated With 20% Lower Risk of Heart Disease A study presented at the 2024 European Society of Cardiology meeting examined data from 90,903 adults in the UK Biobank project, a database holding medical and lifestyle records of 500,000 people in the UK. Of these, 19,816 met the criteria for being sleep deprived. Over a follow-up period of 14 years, the…
Cultural shift: Lululemon’s Global Wellness Report finds widespread “wellbeing burnout”–SGB Media Lululemon’s new, annual Global Wellbeing Report (surveying 16,000 adults in 15 different countries) found a “counterproductive cycle where the relentless pursuit of wellbeing is making us less well.” While 89% of consumers have found more ways to improve overall health and wellness, so has the pressure to maintain the momentum. Nearly two-thirds surveyed struggle…
Workplace Wellness Is Unwell—Companies Must Refocus on Fair Pay and Livable Hours By Thierry Malleret, economist In 2022, $51 billion was spent globally on workplace wellness programs (according to the GWI, in measures ranging from apps to counseling). Yet, the global workforce seems never to have been so unhappy, unhealthy, and unwell. According to a recent Gallup report, employees’ stress has reached unprecedented levels, with…
Research Dive: Per Capita Spending on Wellness Around the World GWI’s 2024 report, The Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings (2019-2022), provides two different sets of country rankings. When we look at overall wellness economy size, the countries that come out on top tend to be countries with very large overall economies and populations: the United States, China, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. However, when we…
Why ‘doing nothing, intentionally’ is good for us: The rise of the slow living movement Is a slower, more mindful pace of life the answer to stress – or is it just another privileged lifestyle brag? Meet the author who battled burnout with “a year of nothing”. Read More Must-reads from the Wellness World
Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of ‘overtourism’ in the summer of 2024 To be visited during the summer of “overtourism” in 2024 means traffic jams, water problems and high housing prices. Read More Must-reads from the Wellness World
