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A big issue to watch is the extent to which changing/healthier eating habits will affect the future of the food industry – an issue that we’ve addressed on several occasions in the Wellness edition of The Monthly Barometer.

When the world puzzled over the purple circles on the body of Olympic gold medalist swimmer, Michael Phelps, the ancient Chinese healing practice of cupping experienced a major Olympic moment. What is cupping? What’s the medical evidence for it? What do experts say?

With mounting research that the new always-on work culture is killing productivity, more companies worldwide are taking action to unplug workers. This can range from creating firm policies on work hours (and encouraging people to totally unplug outside of them) to automatically deleting emails for employees on vacation – even banning all internal work emails in favor of calls and face-to-face communication.

Malleret examines a couple of rising trends in the wellness space this month: 1) How both hotels and gyms are creating new “social spaces” where the separation between work, play and rest is getting blurred, and whether this trend threatens the very concept of the “stand-alone” gym. 2) Whether the uniquely structured new tax just passed in Philadelphia on sugary drinks means more such measures are coming in the U.S. and elsewhere.

The GWI’s international roundtables are forums where experts – whether from medicine, science, policy, hospitality or spa – come together to drive more wellness in the world. The 2015 roundtable in Wales held with Swansea University seems to have done just that.