With income inequality worsening around the world, a top economist has argued that this issue may become tomorrow’s political catastrophe (by giving rise to an explosion in populism).
And while income inequalities are already reflected in people’s access to wellness (how people eat, exercise, etc.), Malleret argues that the divide between the wellness “haves” and “have-nots” looks to worsen in the future, especially as new high-tech (and expensive) wellness solutions appear.
The human cost of climate change and rising pollution makes headlines, but it’s now raising economic and investment red flags.
Read more about how the world’s largest asset manager has just warned investors that the impact of climate change is “underappreciated and under-priced,” and how the companies that pollute the most will become less valuable.
The Global Wellness Institute’s Wellness Communities Initiative is the global resource for the fast-growing wellness real estate market, with a focus on communities developed with proactive health and wellness, ecological sensitivity and social connectivity in mind.
VIEW ALL BRIEF POSTS A new study measuring the impact of meals with different levels of saturated fats found that, for women with low levels of stress, markers of inflammation were higher after eating a meal with high levels of saturated fats versus a low saturated fat meal. But for women with high stress levels, those differences disappeared. They had high inflammation levels even after…
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, wearing fitness-tracking technology actually resulted in less weight loss than not wearing the technology.
It is one of the great ironies of our era that, although we are now constantly digitally “connected,” Western societies are now suffering a serious epidemic of loneliness. Read about how loneliness is a predictor of early death – and how governments are starting to take action.
