Next Trend in Real Estate: Combining Wellness & Sustainability Components

According to the UN, global real estate contributes up to 30 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions and consumes around 40 percent of the world’s energy. This is why the next big trend in the industry will be to combine its wellness and sustainability components. Moving forward, the fast-growing business of wellness lifestyle real estate will have no choice but to take into consideration all…

Mental Wellness Is the Big Elephant in the Corporate Boardroom

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…

Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of March 10, 2020)

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…

GWI’s Wellness for Cancer Initiative Hosts Roundtable on Interplay of Fashion, Beauty & Cancer

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…

March’s Wellness Moonshot: GROW

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

Wellness Evidence Study: Intermittent Fasting Best Diet for Weight Loss; Mediterranean Diet Healthier Overall

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…