The majority of Americans don’t take their allotted vacation days, which, studies show, takes a huge toll on productivity. When surveyed, 36% say they skipped vacation to impress their bosses with their dedication. This is not a healthy work culture…
VIDEO: The Mayr Way: Eating Habits Matter as Much as What You Eat
“Gut health” has been a hot recent topic, but Dr. Harald Stossier, Medical Director of Austria’s famed VIVAMAYR Medical Clinic, explains how Mayr Medicine has been pioneering this concept for over a century – and how eating habits (like chewing correctly) are at least as important as what you eat.
Wellness Architecture: New City in China Covers Every Building in Plants and Trees
Ground has been broken on Liuzhou Forest City in China, where every building – from houses to hotels – is covered with plants and trees. This bold “green city” concept from Italian architect, Stefano Boeri, uses 40,000 trees and one million plants to fight pollution and decrease air temperature and noise.
GWI Roundtable: The Future of Wellness in Architecture, Engineering & Construction
On June 27, at Steelcase headquarters in NYC, the GWI’s Wellness Architecture Initiative, headed by Veronica Schreibeis Smith, held a roundtable on how building for human health and wellness will – and must – transform the architecture, engineering and construction industries. Top experts discussed everything from how to measure the effect that environments have on wellbeing to what degree architects will be held accountable for the health impact of their buildings.
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of July 3, 2017)
“Dr. Andrew Weil Says We’re Taking Too Many Medicines” – The New York Times – June 22, 2017
Dr. Andrew Weil, the integrative medicine pioneer, has a new book, “Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better”. He argues here that people are now taking far too many medicines (whether statins, antidepressants or common cold remedies) – a problem that’s been building this last century because of a mindset on the part of doctors that medication is the only legitimate way to treat disease. (Dr. Weil will keynote at this October’s Global Wellness Summit.)
Chinese Outbound Wellness Tourism will be a Huge Force
Chinese outbound tourism will shape the future of the global wellness industry for years to come. Not only because Chinese tourists are becoming much more health/wellness conscious, but because the Chinese traveling population is so incredibly massive, that even a marginal future increase means big numbers.
