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…
Must-Reads from the Wellness World (Week of October 5, 2016)
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, wearing fitness-tracking technology actually resulted in less weight loss than not wearing the technology.
Loneliness is a serious wellness crisis
It is one of the great ironies of our era that, although we are now constantly digitally “connected,” Western societies are now suffering a serious epidemic of loneliness. Read about how loneliness is a predictor of early death – and how governments are starting to take action.
UK Weakens its Fight Against Childhood Obesity
A step backward in governments’ ongoing march to fight obesity: the UK just weakened its long-awaited strategy against childhood obesity by making the reduction in sugar in children’s foods a “suggestion” rather than mandatory.
Preview the GWI’s Career Development Initiative’s New Programs
The GWI’s Global Career Development Initiative, launched in 2012, revolves around three programs that address the spa and wellness industry’s “Achilles’ heel”: the need for more well trained staff!
