At the turn of each year, flurries of global trends reports on the future of wellness appear. To help businesses understand what’s around the bend across every wellness sector, the GWI recently added a “Trends Resource” to its site, aggregating the 2016 global trends reports from organizations and companies as diverse as the World Economic Forum, Euromonitor, Mind Body Green and Spa Business.
Wellness for Cancer Becomes GWI Initiative
Wellness for Cancer is a non-profit educational organization that trains spas to heal those who need it most: those that have, or who have survived, cancer. Read about how it recently became a Global Wellness Institute Initiative, which has created momentum for the project, and Founder Julie Bach’s vision for this important training program
Bad Sleep? Low-Fiber, High-Fat & Sugary Foods May Be to Blame
A new study by Columbia University suggests that eating low-fiber, high-fat and sugary foods leads to waking up at night and less time in “slow wave sleep,” the critical restorative phase. If studies have shown that sleep deprivation leads to bad diet choices (which lead to obesity and diabetes), this new study suggests the whole “bad diet thing” is a vicious circle.
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of January 26, 2016)
“Pleasure is good: How French children acquire a taste for life” – The Conversation, Jan. 5
A professor explains that in France, the struggle to teach children to eat well is not connected to the moralistic, guilty-pleasure model common in America, but rather to the pure pursuit of pleasure. As a result, French children end up having great taste and a better diet.
Video: Dr. Deepak Chopra on the “Future of Wellness”
At the recent Global Wellness Summit, world-renowned thinker Dr. Deepak Chopra took a brilliant dive into how the future of wellness is decoding the epigenome, that DNA which is ceaselessly modified by lifestyle choices. He put the hard science behind our intuitive sense that changing our lifestyles and consciousness (through healthy food, exercise, sleep and meditation) can prevent the expression of 95 percent of genetic mutations (the root of chronic disease) that are not hardwired into us at birth.
A “User’s Guide” for Hot Springs Released
When you’re lying blissed out in hot springs, you may not ask yourself questions like: What is the true history of thermal mineral bathing? What makes soaking in natural mineral springs different from regular old heated water (with minerals added)? Well, as a booming $50 billion global industry, more travelers need a guide to the real value of – and how to best participate in – natural hot spring bathing. So the GWI’s Global Hot Springs Initiative just released the world’s first “user’s guide.”
