The 2019 World Happiness Report was just unveiled and, once again, Northern European nations prove that they are out in front in cracking the happiness code, with eight of the top 10 happiest nations hailing from the region: 1) Finland, 2) Denmark, 3) Norway, 4) Iceland, 5) Netherlands, 6) Switzerland, 7) Sweden, and 10) Austria. New Zealand and Canada took the #8 and #9 spots.…
MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION A new US survey sheds some light on how our work generally impacts our wellbeing. In the country that is the keenest about wellness (the US) and in the socioeconomic group that is the most invested in it (the affluent, upper-middle class), new data reveals that a surprisingly high percentage of individuals are miserable at work. According to a survey…
A large, new study from Harvard’s School of Public Health found that drinking sugar-heavy beverages (whether sodas or fruit drinks) was associated with early mortality. One extra 12-ounce serving of a sugary drink daily was linked to a 7 percent increased risk of death overall and a 10 percent increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease. One researcher noted: “The optimal intake of these drinks…
Feel Better Now? The Rise and Rise of the Anxiety Economy – The Guardian, March 10, 2019 Anxiety is now a multibillion-dollar industry that is rising fast and at risk of becoming over-commoditized. It contains many “anti-anxiety” products, ranging from squishy toys to coloring books to meditation apps to weighted blankets, which often do little to acquiesce anxiety and sometimes have quite the opposite effect.…
Trips Led by and for Women (to Celebrate Women’s History Month) – The New York Times, March 4, 2019 In early 2018, the Global Wellness Summit identified the trend “A New Feminist Wellness,” which examined how more travel is now squarely aimed at women’s empowerment, whether it is more all-women adventure tours or more retreats for women to heal emotionally. This trend is really picking…
Switzerland’s Gottlieb Duttweiler Insitute, a leading future-forecasting think-tank and a Global Wellness Institute™ (GWI) research partner, will hold a conference May 10 in Zurich called, “Eternity Now: Wellbeing and Beauty Retail Reimagined.” A provocative lineup of speakers will tackle this topic from Marcia Kilgore (founder, Bliss-Labs, FitFlop, Beauty Pie, etc.) to GWI research partner, Anjan Chatterjee (Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, author…
