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Epidemic of Mental Health Problems for Young Women: Is Social Media to Blame?

A new study from the UK’s National Health Service had some scary findings: More than one in four young women (ages 16-24) now have a mental health condition like depression, panic disorder or OCD – while the rates of mental illness in men have remained unchanged. This epidemic among today’s young women (often considered the “selfie generation”) suggests that time spent on social media may be a culprit.

Read more about why mental wellness needs to become a bigger wellness industry focus, and how it’s the biggest cause of misery in high-income countries.

Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of November 8, 2016)

“It’s Employment Status, Not Class, that Affects Mental Health” – The Conversation, September 30, 2016

An interesting insight…

With Rising Income Inequality – Inequality in Access to Wellness Looms Ahead

With income inequality worsening around the world, a top economist has argued that this issue may become tomorrow’s political catastrophe (by giving rise to an explosion in populism).

And while income inequalities are already reflected in people’s access to wellness (how people eat, exercise, etc.), Malleret argues that the divide between the wellness “haves” and “have-nots” looks to worsen in the future, especially as new high-tech (and expensive) wellness solutions appear.

MARKET INSIGHT: Climate Change and Pollution Will Cost Businesses in the Future

The human cost of climate change and rising pollution makes headlines, but it’s now raising economic and investment red flags.

Read more about how the world’s largest asset manager has just warned investors that the impact of climate change is “underappreciated and under-priced,” and how the companies that pollute the most will become less valuable.

Wellness Communities Initiative Releases Important White Paper

The Global Wellness Institute’s Wellness Communities Initiative is the global resource for the fast-growing wellness real estate market, with a focus on communities developed with proactive health and wellness, ecological sensitivity and social connectivity in mind.

New Study: Stress May Wipe Out Benefits of a Healthy Diet

VIEW ALL BRIEF POSTS A new study measuring the impact of meals with different levels of saturated fats found that, for women with low levels of stress, markers of inflammation were higher after eating a meal with high levels of saturated fats versus a low saturated fat meal. But for women with high stress levels, those differences disappeared. They had high inflammation levels even after…