WATCH David Bosshart's (CEO, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute) presentation of the Wellness 2030 Report from the Global Wellness Institute's press event last month.

If humans have constantly tried to discover the key to happiness (using every tool they had access to), digitalization has expanded the technical range of these tools and offers up individual metrics for happiness.

--->https://www.globalwellnessinstitute.org/wellness-2030

"Wellness Communities" Are Filling Up Fast. Here's What The Hype Is All About –– Mind Body Green's article highlights some powerful take-aways from the Global Wellness Institute's press event last month and from the GWI's latest research report Build Well To Live Well.

"...We are not just ourselves—we are the people and the things around us. Let's talk about how to design and build so that our daily activities are not just net zero but net positive from a social and environmental perspective." – GWI senior researcher, Ophelia Yeung

See what the Global Wellness Institute's Wellness For Children Initiative has been working on recently -- including a video from a touch therapy training session in Ireland and a new evidence based exercise guide for children's wellness.
---> https://www.globalwellnessinstitute.org/wellness-for-child…/

The GWI recently launched a “Wellness Moonshot” whose mission is to achieve a world free of preventable disease. And new research (American Cancer Society) just provided more evidence as to how crucial a ramped-up focus on prevention is. Nearly half (42%) of all U.S. cancer deaths—including the vast majority of lung and skin cancers—would be preventable by lifestyle change.

The study - if anything - underestimates the role of lifestyle choices in cancer prevention. –––> http://ow.ly/70oE30huBJ6

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From The Global Wellness Brief: Must Reads – “The End of the Social (Media) Era Can’t Come Soon Enough” - Vanity Fair, 2017 - We’ve heard it repeatedly before, but this time it might be different as more and more come to view social media as something tearing societies apart and built to exploit “a vulnerability in human psychology.” This correspondent documents a spate of cases of people abandoning the platforms. He says: “It seems increasingly likely that our society will one day view our infatuation with Twitter, Facebook, and the like as a passing, often destructive fad.” ---> http://ow.ly/nL4H30hrHC2

From The Global Wellness Brief: Wellness Evidence –

A new study (led by Univ. Of Pennsylvania researchers) indicated that children who eat fish score higher on IQ tests and sleep better. Studying Chinese children aged 9-11, it found that kids who ate fish twice a week or more scored an average of 4.8 points higher on IQ tests than those who ate it twice a month or less. --> http://ow.ly/C2i830hzy7j

From The Global Wellness Brief Must Reads: “Can Kindness Be Taught?” - The New York Times, December 14, 2017 --> http://ow.ly/D9Ky30hDvOV

Yes it can! Teaching kindness is a global movement. “Kindness Curriculum” is being introduced in more schools, helping children to manage the stress of standardized testing and to cut down on interpersonal conflicts. Academic research shows that children who receive kindness training become more altruistic. It also strengthens their ability to focus and modestly boosts their academic performance.

From The Global Wellness Brief Must Reads: “The Consumerist Church of Fitness Classes” - The Atlantic, December 2017 - Gyms provide ritual and community, serving as a sort of religion. They also promote values some cultures already worship—capitalism and overwork. ---> http://ow.ly/CAzd30hCfEL

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From The Global Wellness Brief Must Reads: “Nice Brains Finish Last” - Scientific American - A new study suggests that “prosocial” brains are more prone to depression, while those who prefer everything for themselves tend to be happier. A bit depressing! ––> http://ow.ly/1QeD30hCB19

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The global workplace wellness industry grew 6.4% from 2013-2015, from $40.7 billion to $43.3 billion. Visit the Global Wellness Institute's facts page for more wellness industry statistics. --> http://ow.ly/WFAH30iaYiO

A STRIKING STAT from the Global Wellness Brief:

Nearly half (47%) of young men in the UK had a spa, salon or beauty treatment in the year leading up to June 2017 – up significantly from 33% in the same period in 2015.

–Source: Mintel Research, 12/2017

If an automatic preoccupation with beauty – which is a $999 billion commercial enterprise – can contribute to unfairness, how do we shift responses to beauty to emphasize wellness? – The Global Wellness Institute's latest report, “Beauty2Wellness: Mitigating Barriers and Building Bridges,” unpacks this problem further. Download the free report --> http://ow.ly/1FTS30i8OAy

Earlier this year, research from the Global Wellness Institute was featured by the New York Times in their article, "Where to Get Healthier in 2018."

The Case For The GWI's Wellness Moonshot:

Every year, environmental pollutants kill an estimated 1.7 million children under the age of five. That means one in four deaths for children aged one month to five-years-old. –World Health Organization, 2017

Learn more about the Wellness Moonshot --> http://ow.ly/2q1X30i9eAH