“Rethinking the Calorie” – The Atlantic, January 26, 2016
This article claims that the simple weight-loss formula—burn more energy than you consume—may actually be holding us back in the fight to curb obesity. Progress to understand this is critical: in the U.S. alone, the inability to curb the extraordinary prevalence of obesity costs more than $147 billion in healthcare, as well as $4.3 billion in job absenteeism and yet more in lost productivity.
Financial Wellness Will Become Hot Topic in Future
With a painfully slow global economic recovery, and with money being people’s top source of stress (in countries with less generous social benefits), Malleret predicts that “financial wellness” will become an increasingly important concept in the future. Read about why and how financial wellness programs will become as important as physical wellness initiatives for both companies and individuals going forward. Consider the implications for spa and wellness establishments.
The 2016 Wellness Trends Are In
At the turn of each year, flurries of global trends reports on the future of wellness appear. To help businesses understand what’s around the bend across every wellness sector, the GWI recently added a “Trends Resource” to its site, aggregating the 2016 global trends reports from organizations and companies as diverse as the World Economic Forum, Euromonitor, Mind Body Green and Spa Business.
Wellness for Cancer Becomes GWI Initiative
Wellness for Cancer is a non-profit educational organization that trains spas to heal those who need it most: those that have, or who have survived, cancer. Read about how it recently became a Global Wellness Institute Initiative, which has created momentum for the project, and Founder Julie Bach’s vision for this important training program
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of January 26, 2016)
“Pleasure is good: How French children acquire a taste for life” – The Conversation, Jan. 5
A professor explains that in France, the struggle to teach children to eat well is not connected to the moralistic, guilty-pleasure model common in America, but rather to the pure pursuit of pleasure. As a result, French children end up having great taste and a better diet.
Video: Dr. Deepak Chopra on the “Future of Wellness”
At the recent Global Wellness Summit, world-renowned thinker Dr. Deepak Chopra took a brilliant dive into how the future of wellness is decoding the epigenome, that DNA which is ceaselessly modified by lifestyle choices. He put the hard science behind our intuitive sense that changing our lifestyles and consciousness (through healthy food, exercise, sleep and meditation) can prevent the expression of 95 percent of genetic mutations (the root of chronic disease) that are not hardwired into us at birth.
