At a recent press event, GWI researchers further expanded on its 2020 major research report: “Defining the Mental Wellness Economy,” the first study to size and analyze the multi-sector, global mental wellness market. Said Sr. Researcher Ophelia Yeung, “COVID has brought mental health and wellness to the forefront of the global conversation, for obvious reasons. But even before COVID, our mental health situation was grim.…
The Global Wellness Summit yesterday released its top nine wellness trends for 2021. The 97-page report was authored by wellness industry thought leaders, researchers and trend spotters, and the trends represent the new directions that the GWS feels will have the most meaningful impact on the multitrillion global wellness industry. Forecasting trends in the fast-evolving wellness space is daunting every year. In 2020, we experienced…
Exercise is just as effective as mindfulness at reducing people’s stress and anxiety, a Cambridge study found. The scientists reviewed 136 randomized control trials with 11,000 adult participants from 29 countries. In most cases, mindfulness did positively impact anxiety, stress and depression, but there was no evidence it works better than exercise. ACCESS STUDY
Depending on the level of compliance with social distancing rules, the dark winter of the pandemic may well last beyond the “official’ end of winter (March 20, 2021), which raises an intriguing point about the relationship between wellbeing and the pandemic. It is the following: are happier people more likely to observe COVID lockdown rules? A recent academic paper used three large-scale surveys to investigate whether happier people were…
In 2021, natural capital will become a prominent investment theme. The reasons are twofold. (1) COVID has made us aware of the importance of nature, highlighting how critical it is for our mental and physical health. Thus, the wellbeing of our planet and our own individual wellbeing are seen as two sides of the same coin – investing in the former yields benefits for the latter.…
An important new study from global researchers, relying on movement tracking data from tens of thousands of people worldwide, found that people that were the most sedentary were significantly more likely to die young. The good news: It doesn’t take a whole lot of movement to counteract that threat. Just 11 minutes of brisk walking or other mild exercise each day (even for the group…
