Wellness Trends to Watch in 2023
3 years on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic can still be felt. It has impacted many facets of our lives, including how we view our health and wellness. It is against this backdrop, that I thought I’d share some thoughts around the major health and wellness trends I see for 2023. 1. The definition […]
There’s More to Mental Wellness than Mindfulness and Meditation – How You Can Support Mental Health of Your Customers and Employees
With the Covid-19 induced work-and-shop from home lifestyle upon us, the awareness of mental wellness seems to finally be coming to the forefront of the corporate world. However, many organizations are still struggling to understand how they can effectively support mental wellness, both for their customers and their employees. Given that mobile technology is the […]
Are You Fully Engaging Your Health And Wellness Customers Around What Matters Most To Them?
Remember pre-covid times when your customers could browse stores, read labels, try clothes on and even sample products? That by-gone era has been replaced with all things digital – from shopping to socialising, we are well and truly living in the virtual world. Activewear is the new work-from-home office wear; supplements are the new power […]
How Chronic Lifestyle Diseases Impact your Business Profits
And what you can do to avoid these crippling costs. Preventable chronic lifestyle conditions such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease are costing Asian economies and subsequently the private sector billions of dollars each year in poor productivity, absenteeism, and increased insurance premiums. These growing financial drains can be mitigated by clever companies willing […]
The Lesson Every Olympian Learns After the Olympic Flame Is Extinguished
Two-time Olympian and founder of Asian Health Tech Startup Active8me Jeremy Rolleston shares a lesson we can all learn from. As the action-packed 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo nears an end, I’m reminded exactly why I’m here, in Asia, as the founder of a digital health start-up. Being a 2x Olympian, I can see there […]
Employee Health & Wellness Programs – A Perk or a Necessity?
There is no doubt that wellness is ‘on trend’, with individual spending on health and wellness increasing from a $3.7 trillion to a $4.2 trillion market between 2015 to 2017. That’s nearly twice as fast as global economic growth (3.6 percent annually, based on IMF data). Corporate wellness programs make up a reasonable proportion of […]
Listen to Your Grandmother – Get Healthy to Lose Weight
My grandmother doesn’t hold back when she has something to say. She recently told me “You’re lazy and you eat too much”. It sounds harsh, but it was her way of saying I was unhealthy, and it was in context to me complaining about my weight. When my grandma was young, she walked almost everywhere […]
Case Study: How a Dean of Accountancy is Making Health a Priority to Ensure She can Care for Others
Evangeline Jamili is not new to exercise. But like so many busy professionals finding time for gym visits became difficult. This was especially concerning when her health depends on remaining consistent to combat the effects of Thyroid surgery. Our Client: Evangeline Jamili, Butuan City Philippines “I had an amazing body when I was younger. In […]
Health Tech Ethics – Buyer Beware vs Corporate Responsibility
Ethics, in some cases, have stopped science, limited medical progression and saved us from ourselves. Bioethics, on the other hand, is based on human values at the time of debate and as human values evolve, so too must ethics be adjusted. For example, as a society, we used to fear ‘big brother’. But now it’s […]
