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Global Wellness Institute tapped European experts, for forecast ranging from how European nations will increasingly tax unhealthy food/beverages to a coming boom in Eastern European wellness properties. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT

All over the world, productivity is on the serious decline, which is puzzling given our era of ramped up technology and innovation. Malleret asks: Is workaholism, or spending too many hours at work, to blame? Read about how workaholism not only leads to many psychiatric disorders, but may also be sapping global productivity, which is nothing short of a threat to democratic order.

Susie Ellis offers up a “workplace wellness reality check”: While the media revels in detailing the workplace wellness “playgrounds” of privileged tech startups – with their stand-up treadmill desks and executive retreats with mindfulness gurus – the facts are that the average global worker is simply getting sicker, older and more stressed.  Read her new Huffington Post article on why we need to stop focusing on the “well few” and the cutting-edge workplace wellness “outliers,” and digest the facts about just how unwell the world’s workers are – so we can do something about it.

A new UCLA study found that a weekly regime of yoga and meditation could forestall age-related mental decline. They tested older adults with memory issues: one group did an established brain-training program (with classroom time and mental exercises), while the other did Kundalini yoga and Kirtan Kriya meditation (involving repeating a mantra and “dancing” with repetitive hand movements). Cognitive and brain-scanning tests showed that all groups performed better on thinking tests, but the yoga and meditation group had significantly better mood improvement, visuospatial memory, and more communication between parts of the brain that control attention and focus. The UCLA professor heading up the study reported, “We were a bit surprised by the magnitude of the brain effects.”