Welltodo Today: China’s Vegan Revolution, Wellness Travel Post-Covid, Headspace’ Latest Collab

Today’s key global wellness news articles from around the world, impacting the industry and influencing the business of wellness.

Whole Foods links up with Headspace on recipes, meditations

Whole Foods Market has teamed up with meditation app developer Headspace on a cross-platform collaboration marketed as a way to help consumers have positive feelings about food, the grocer announced on Thursday . The offerings include meditation exercises and a video series called Food for Mood on IGTV, Instagram’s app for watching longer, vertical videos.

Luxury Travel and Real Estate Industries Rethink Wellness in a Post-Covid World

As vaccines slow the spread of the coronavirus around the planet, a post-Covid existence is slowly coming into focus for everything from daily routines to major public events. In the niche realm of luxury wellness travel and real estate, a pre-Covid understanding of health-enhancing journeys included massages, spa treatments, and a smoothie after yoga class.

China’s appetite for meat fades as vegan revolution takes hold

The window of a KFC in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou hosts the image of a familiar mound of golden nuggets. But this overflowing bucket sporting Colonel Sanders’ smiling face is slightly different. The bucket is green and the nuggets within it are completely meat free.

The startup striving to make vaginal wellness as easy and normal as talking about skin care or hair care

Happy V says it is helping women who don’t have access to health insurance receive effective treatment options at an affordable price.

“I thought home workouts would be an inclusive space, but the reality was very different”

At the beginning of the pandemic, I took a long, hard look at myself and the headlines that suggested overweight bodies were not only more susceptible to Covid-19 but also more likely to become seriously ill if infected. The resounding feeling was that I needed to get fit – for the benefit of both my physical and mental health.

Virgin Active sells historic Barbican site to Nuffield | Leisure Opportunities news

Nuffield Health has acquired the lease for the historic Barbican health club site in London, which is currently operated by Virgin Active. Located on Aldersgate Road, the property has been operated as a health club since the 1980s, when it first opened as The Barbican Health and Fitness Centre.