Welltodo Today: Fueling Food Innovation, Goop’s Retail Store, Fitness For The Hearing Impaired

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

Millennials have a new shopping preference that should terrify Lululemon and Athleta

Young Americans may have fallen out of love with yoga pants. The dominant apparel trend of athleisure seems to have reached its peak in the second quarter of 2017. Athleisure is the trend of buying athletic apparel for its unique properties – sweat-wicking, stretch, comfort – without necessarily intending to use it to work out.

Goop’s First Permanent Store Is Made To Look Like A Hollywood Home

On the heels of its conference expansion and a print magazine, Goop is announcing its latest quest for consumer domination-a store. The lifestyle brand just opened Goop Lab, its first brick-and-mortar retail “bungalow” within the famous Brentwood Country Mart, a colony of upscale retailers and artisan food makers in Los Angeles.

How hiking became the fashion set’s favourite workout

‘Hiking is the new yoga,’ says Sarah Andelman, the buyer at the cult Parisian store, Colette. She has just conquered ‘yet another mountain in the Catskills’ for her summer holiday. And she’s not on her own. ‘I’m obsessed with hiking,’ says Love magazine editor-in-chief and fashion stylist for Miu Miu, Katie Grand, who goes off-road every summer.

The 25 best US cities for aspiring #bossladies to shine

Being a small fish in a big pond like New York or LA can be tough: You’re constantly competing for only a handful of different positions, and it’s easy to get overshadowed by the millions of other go-getters who surround you on a daily basis.

WeWork For Chefs: How One Coworking Incubator Fuels Food Innovation

On a busy Brooklyn avenue there’s a looming, brick structure that’s equal parts regal and raggedly worn. It used to be a factory for the drug-maker Pfizer; now dozens ofyoung food entrepreneurs take the elevator to the second floor where they swap recipes at Foodworks, a coworking space that’s also an incubator, test kitchen, and commissary for emerging food and beverage brands.

These Women Are Trying to Make Fitness More Accessible to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

When 29-year-old Katie Winder joined a new gym recently in her hometown of Orem, Utah, she received a free personal training session. She was excited for the one-on-one time-especially since she’s a trainer herself, and she was curious to be on the other side of things, getting a client’s perspective.

Fitness Tracking Startups Are Sweating Due to EU Privacy Regulators

Startups hoping to sell health tracking devices and software to corporate customers are worried European regulators will torpedo their business model. Employers should be banned from issuing workers with wearable fitness monitors, such as Fitbit, or other health tracking devices, even with the employees’ permission, a European Union advisory panel said in June.