Welltodo Today: The Future Of Food, Vibrating Yoga Pants, Green Branding

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

Drone deliveries, DNA diets and 3D menus: how we’ll eat and drink in the future

‘In a technology-enthused world, consumers are used to having things at the touch of their fingertips. Restaurants seem antiquated by comparison – but all that’s about to change,’ says Rajat Suri, chief executive of the California-based tech company E La Carte, whose cutting-edge tablets are coming to restaurants and pubs in the UK soon.

Pure Gym picks advisers for £600m sale

The owner of Britain’s biggest fitness clubs operator has picked banks to steer it through a sale that could value it at up to £600m, less than a year after abandoning a lucrative stock market flotation. Sky News understands that Pure Gym’s main shareholder, CCMP Capital Advisors, has hired Harris Williams and Jefferies to oversee an auction of the company.

Why Green Branding Needs To Die

Conservatives used to own the idea of conservation - and could, again. There’s nothing in right wing ideology to prevent investment in conservation-minded enterprise. These days, however, the divide is so deep that even otherwise staunch conservatives who challenge the party line are suspect: Hostility toward climate activism cost Ingliss his seat in 2010.

True Fitness shuts all gyms and spas in Malaysia, a day after closing down in Thailand

SINGAPORE – Local fitness chain True Fitness has closed all its gyms and spa centres in Malaysia, a day after abruptly shutting its operations in Thailand.

How Lululemon Is Preparing For A Rebound

Lululemon witnessed a tough start to 2017, as the company’s stock price fell by almost 25% on the back of disappointing store comp sales and slowing e-commerce momentum. Despite the troubled start, the company seems to have turned things around in the second quarter.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s first Goop health summit was half great and half cray

If you’re no stranger to Goop, you know that luxurious gift guides, vaginal steaming and conscious uncoupling have long been de rigueur at Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website. Given the actress-turned-entrepreneur’s active move into the health and wellness space (she recently launched a series of tailored vitamins), it’s no surprise Paltrow tested her first summit in the gluten-free city of Los Angeles Saturday.

Vibrating Yoga Pants: Now You Can Listen To Your Yoga Pants

I know what you’ve been thinking. If only your yoga pants could talk, life would be so much better. Well, now they can. For just $299 (which is basically $300), you will be able to buy yoga pants with vibrating sensors that may tell you how to adjust your form while doing yoga.