Celebrate Wellness Worldwide and Discover The Wellness Moonshot: China

Celebrate Wellness Worldwide and Discover The Wellness Moonshot: China No one person or organization will create a world free of preventable disease alone. It will take all of us. As a wellness leader, please extend an invitation to your friends, family and colleagues to join you at the GWI’s next Full Moon Celebration on Wednesday, May 26, at 10 AM ET.  Our special guest will be GWI…

May 2021 | Extend: Apply Moonshot Thinking and EXTEND Your Wellness Imagination

The Wellness Moonshot: : A World Free of Preventable Disease extends to health professionals who guide patients to use wellness as part of healing illness and disease, corporate executives who integrate wellness at work to elevate the employee experience, parents and educators who teach children wellness as a foundation for learning, and the many others who bring wellness to their homes and communities. “Extend a…

A Wellness Industry Conundrum: Fitness Is Booming, But So Is Physical Inactivity

In Move to be Well: The Global Economy of Physical Activity, GWI estimated that physical activity is an $828.2 billion market, one of the largest sectors within the $4.5 trillion wellness economy. Consumers spent $367.7 billion on participating in various types of recreational physical activities in 2018 ($109 billion on fitness, $230 billion on sports and active recreation, and $29 billion on mindful movement). In…

Wellness Evidence Study: “Spiritual Fitness” Reduces Alzheimer’s Risk

” A new review of studies in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease found that “spiritual fitness,” a new concept in medicine interweaving psychological and spiritual wellbeing, reduces multiple risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Finds that individuals with high scores on a “purpose in life” (PIL) were 2.4 times more likely to remain free of AD than individuals with low PIL—and that Kirtan Kriya, a…

With Mass Tourism Being Denounced, Travel’s Future Is More Sustainable and More Unequal

Since the pandemic started, global consumers have amassed $5.4 trillion in excess savings (an estimate equivalent to 6% of global GDP, mostly detained by the wealthier households in high-income countries). As economies open up, demand will surge, releasing some of these excess savings, and just one-third of the total could be enough to boost global output by two percentage points this year and in 2022.…

Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of May 17, 2021)

Our mental health crashed in 2020. Recovery could take years–CNET, May 2, 2021 COVID-19, lockdowns and financial pressures have inflicted emotional wounds around the world. In the US, anxiety and depression jumped 200% in 2020; in the UK, 31% of people reported depression severe enough to justify “high-intensity psychological support.” Harvard researchers argue that mental health issues rose in a third of the global population, noting:…