When people think “wellness,” they probably don’t think hand-washing. But given the coronavirus crisis, it may be the single most selfless and effective thing you can do to stop the outbreak. James Hamblin, MD, in this month’s Atlantic, explains the power of washing your hands, how most of us do it for 5 seconds when we need to do it for 20, and how the…
MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION The spread of the new coronavirus is accelerating. According to health experts, the reproduction number, estimated at between 2 and 3 (on average, every infected person infects from 2 to 3 new people), makes an immediate containment of the outbreak elusive. It is still impossible to tell whether the outbreak will cause lasting and critical damage to China and the…
From a wellness perspective, one of the “hot” issues that will make the headlines in 2020 is air pollution. The reason is simple: Climate change is making it far worse. The reasons are twofold: (1) When the air is dryer and hotter, it doesn’t wash pollution out of the atmosphere as quickly as it would otherwise; (2) global warming exacerbates air pollution by trapping tiny…
MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION Globally, wellbeing public policies are gathering momentum. This is not a fad: For more and more government policy-makers, the pursuit of wellbeing is just as important as economic growth. But why now? The climate emergency, widening geopolitical fault lines, social inequities and rising anger, tech, and anxiety about jobs: All these are forcing policy-makers to recognize and act on wellbeing…
The Global Wellness Institute, at the same event, released new data on the North American fitness market. The US is way out in front of all nations for overall physical activity spend ($265 billion) and leads in spend in all six markets studied: sports and active recreation, fitness, mindful movement, equipment and supplies, apparel and footwear, and technology. But there’s a serious disconnect: Sedentary lives,…
Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) has not been used in clinical guidelines for interventions in depression because of the perceived lack of evidence. To remedy this, Edge Hill University, UK, undertook a systematic review of high-quality studies and found that DMT—in every study—was found to be an effective therapy for the treatment of adults with depression. ACCESS STUDY Read Quartz’s important, new article about the powerful…
