MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION Two key developments in workplace wellness: 1) Unwellness at work is becoming one of the big elephants in the corporate boardroom. As a revealing example, in 2017–2018 in the UK, stress, depression and anxiety accounted for more than half (57 percent) of total working days lost due to ill health. The issue of mental health in the workplace seems to…
The Difference Between Worry, Stress and Anxiety – New York Times, February 26, 2020 Most of us would agree that the past weeks, with news about the spread of the coronavirus ramping up daily, have been a source of worry, stress and anxiety. This short, highly digestible article does a great job of explaining the difference between these three notions. In a nutshell: Worry happens…
On January 20, the GWI’s Wellness for Cancer Initiative hosted a roundtable on how the beauty and fashion worlds are evolving to better serve people with or recovering from cancer, as the image of cancer is going through a major overhaul. It explored new programs being offered by brands such as Sephora, Walgreens and CVS to new cancer-supportive spas to how women are using social media…
The Wellness Moonshot Calendar: A Year of Inspiration’s theme for March is GROW. It provides actions and resources to grow your ongoing pursuit of wellness, from short-circuiting the stress-circuit through breathwork to the need to focus on elevating the wellbeing and involvement of women and girls. LEARN MORE
A new study from the University of Otago, New Zealand, on the Mediterranean, paleo and intermittent-fasting diets compared how well people were able to stick to them and each diet’s outcomes for weight loss and overall health. Less than a third of people stuck to paleo, 57 percent stuck to a Mediterranean diet, and 54 percent stuck to intermittent fasting over the year-long study. The…
A new study from a very prestigious group of doctors has dire projections for the US: By 2030, nearly 1 in 2 Americans will be obese, and 1 in 4 will be severely obese. In addition, severe obesity will be the most common weight bracket for women, low-income adults and black adults across the US. This is a quite sudden crisis: Americans weren’t always this…
