“Why Are Millennials So Obsessed with Food?” – The Atlantic, 8/14/15
This article exposes a trend with considerable implications: The food culture is changing, and a key factor is how processed foods are being rejected by the millennials. Their taste for natural ingredients will shape the future of restaurants, resorts, grocery stores and agriculture.
The Global Wellness Institute (GWI) held its sixth roundtable July 14, in Wales, in partnership with the Institute of Life Science at Swansea University’s Medical School. Thirty-seven high-level experts from the government, academic and private sectors sat down to debate how to make this country a wellness leader among small nations. Now Wales is small, but it’s already a big wellness innovator—just check out its new “Well-being of Future Generations Act.” Gathered leaders identified seven key interventions that could build a more “Well Wales,” from promoting its unique wellness tourism assets like raw nature, peace and cultural authenticity to creating “wellness schools.” Read the press release | Read the full report
Technology has suddenly spawned new, global work realities: imprisonment by screens and a powerful erosion of the line between now always-on “work” and “life.” And assembled experts agreed that we have not yet begun to grasp the wide-ranging impact on employees’ physical and mental health…and productivity.
Thierry Malleret dives into how one “must-watch” issue for wellness is the way in which governments are increasingly attempting to legislate to limit the consumption of unhealthy products. But the consensus is that taxing products like sugar/soda doesn’t do much to change behaviour.
Well, new evidence from Mexico, where 30 percent of the population is obese (and the average citizen drinks the equivalent of half a litre of Coca-Cola a day), shakes up that “doesn’t-work” established wisdom. Read how much consumption has dropped after new taxes—and for more insight on another “must watch” wellness issue…
Lately, I have been asked a lot about our focus on workplace wellness.
