MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION The spread of the new coronavirus is accelerating. According to health experts, the reproduction number, estimated at between 2 and 3 (on average, every infected person infects from 2 to 3 new people), makes an immediate containment of the outbreak elusive. It is still impossible to tell whether the outbreak will cause lasting and critical damage to China and the…
Loneliness is a national crisis. But there is a way to tackle it – Guardian, February 8, 2020 From pubs to factories, the spaces where Brits socially connect are in decline. Thankfully, there’s a group bringing local people together. Masks are wellness now – Slate, February 21, 2020 Protective facemasks are becoming the next major wellness trend—thanks to our increasingly apocalyptic world, filled with fires,…
Collectively, we’re in a wellbeing crisis. Gallup’s 2019 Global State of Emotions Report revealed people across the world are more frightened, angry and sad than ever before. This month’s Wellness Moonshot Calendar: A Year of Inspiration’s theme is include, and provides ways for you to explore what you want wellness to look like at home and at work and actions to INCLUDE more wellness in…
A new study from Sweden’s Uppsala University found that the loss of just one night’s sleep in young, healthy individuals significantly increased the level of tau protein (up 17 percent) in the blood, which is strongly associated with the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. ACCESS STUDY
From a wellness perspective, one of the “hot” issues that will make the headlines in 2020 is air pollution. The reason is simple: Climate change is making it far worse. The reasons are twofold: (1) When the air is dryer and hotter, it doesn’t wash pollution out of the atmosphere as quickly as it would otherwise; (2) global warming exacerbates air pollution by trapping tiny…
MONTHLY BAROMETER – WELLNESS EDITION Globally, wellbeing public policies are gathering momentum. This is not a fad: For more and more government policy-makers, the pursuit of wellbeing is just as important as economic growth. But why now? The climate emergency, widening geopolitical fault lines, social inequities and rising anger, tech, and anxiety about jobs: All these are forcing policy-makers to recognize and act on wellbeing…
