The 11th annual Global Wellness Summit opens at The Breakers Palm Beach in less than two months. In preparation, the conference just unveiled its robust schedule of three days of high-profile keynotes, panels, and roundtables all focused on the business of wellness and what’s around the bend in integrative medicine, fitness, food, wellness technology, travel, workplace wellness, mental wellness, spa, beauty, etc. It’s a historic lineup of experts and topics: from a powerhouse panel on what investors in wellness are looking for to how millennials will completely transform the wellness market.
Wellness Architecture: Mountain-Inspired District, 1,000 Trees, Coming to Shanghai
A new district underway in Shanghai – the Moganshan project from Heatherwick Studios – imagines a 300,000-square-meter complex of buildings as two giant tree-covered mountains – a shining example of creative biophilic design in an urban center.
Global Wellness Institute Launches “Exploring Salt and Halotherapy” Initiative
The GWI has unveiled a new initiative: “Exploring Salt and Halotherapy.” With a surge in salt-infused environments at wellness centers and spas and a profusion of salt-based products being marketed to consumers, the mission of the initiative is to drive more education and quality research.
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of August 15, 2017)
Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age – The New York Times Magazine, August 2, 2017
This article details the agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.
Myth Buster: New Research Suggests Low-Income People Don’t Eat More Junk Food
It’s long been an accepted “truth” that people with lower incomes eat more junk food. But a new U.S. study revealed some surprises: poorer people are actually less likely to eat fast food than middle-class populations and only slightly more likely than the rich. With obesity skyrocketing globally, research like this could inform smarter policy.
Children that Spend Too Much Time on Social Media Experience Higher Mental Illness Symptoms
A new report from a UK think-tank concludes that there’s a strong correlation between too much social media time and mental illness. For instance, 12 percent of children who don’t spend time on social media sites on a school day have symptoms of mental illness—but that figure more than doubles to 27 percent for kids who spend more than three hours/day on social media. Read more about how gaming sites are starting to take action to limit kids’ online playing time.
