Welltodo Today: Clean Beauty, ‘Eco-look’ Packaging, Workplaces That Make You Healthier

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

Unilever could use VR to get people to act on their good intentions

Unilever is naturally treating virtual reality (VR) with caution but one area it thinks the medium could make a difference is using it to sell sustainability. The business is further than most in turning sustainability into a commercial driver, with its sustainable living brands such as Knorr and Lynx delivering nearly half of its total growth last year.

Food and drink launches with a vegetarian claim ‘up 60%’ – data

Data from Innova Market Insights has shown a 60% rise in the number of global food and beverage launches using a vegetarian claim between 2011 and 2015, as flexitarian lifestyles – where diets are characterised by infrequent meat consumption – continues to become more prevalent.

Are You Ready for the Netflix Sweat Lodge?

The fitness of your dreams is now a reality with L.A.’s Shape House, an “urban sweat lodge” that encourages lazing about, with a catch: you’re trapped in a 160 degree-blanket. (Did I mention you get to watch Netflix?)

Products in ‘eco-look’ packaging seen as better quality

Shoppers believe foods are better quality when the packaging looks eco-friendly, and could be willing to spend more as a result, researchers say. The study, published in Food Quality and Preference, had people look at everyday foods with either sustainable or non-sustainable looking packaging.

At This Brazilian Supermarket, Customers Pick Their Produce From A Garden

Here’s one way to get people to buy more vegetables: Make the produce aisle look like a garden plot, and let customers pull heads of lettuce out of soil. A supermarket chain in Brazil-which wanted to emphasize that it was selling fresh, local, sustainably grown food-is experimenting with “fresh garden” installations in its stores, where rows of herbs, onions, and greens are displayed as if they’re growing in the store.

This Is the Future: Workplaces that Make You Healthier

When McKesson decided to revamp its headquarters in Richmond, Va., it knew it was time for a radical change. The drug distribution giant also knew it needed a workplace that was not only inspiring but reflected its primary mission: making people healthier. That’s what led the company to one of the latest workplace trends: WELL Building Certification.

Why clean beauty will soon be taking over Londoners’ bathroom cabinets

Have a peek into any beauty boffin’s cabinet right now, and the chances are you’ll find a host of natural and organic products. Dubbed ‘clean beauty’, the scene has been gaining momentum over the past few years, and 2016 has seen the biggest spike yet.

Women Are The Reason Fitness Is Having A Major Moment

Here’s a little nugget I learned recently: from 2003 to 2013, the half marathon was the fastest growing race distance in the U.S. As Jason Kelly writes in his new book, Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body , “The half marathon is the Goldilocks of distance racing-not too short, and not too long.”