wellness
the quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort.
an approach to healthcare that emphasizes preventing illness and prolonging life, as opposed to emphasizing treating diseases.
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Here’s why career, wellness, and productivity experts say uninterrupted lunch breaks are a necessity—not a guilt-inducing luxury.
Eight ways that taking a real lunch break can improve your work (and life) | By Quinn Fish/Working Mother | September 1, 2020 | Popular-ScienceOcean Spray is looking to branch out beyond cranberries with its Lighthouse Innovation Incubator, broadening its portfolio to include brands in the health and wellness space.
‘We have to be open to failure’: Why Ocean Spray launched a brand incubator for the DTC era | Kristina Monllos | September 1, 2020 | DigidayPart of the mission of Knox Frost, who represents a 20-year-old part-human, part-robot from Atlanta, is to promote wellness and social responsibility.
Rock the Vote enlists Instagram influencers to get young people to the polls | Danielle Abril | August 30, 2020 | FortuneRossi hoped to find investors to buy the house back from Singh and turn it into a wellness center.
The Mystery House: How a Suspicious Multimillion Dollar Real Estate Deal Is Connected to California’s Deadliest Fire | by Scott Morris, Bay City News Foundation | August 26, 2020 | ProPublicaMany brands are using social networks to show how they are contributing to the wellness of the communities during the corona crisis.
The impact of Coronavirus on digital marketing and effective solutions | Birbahadur Kathayat | July 23, 2020 | Search Engine Watch
Portable snacks are good to have on hand, too, says Jessica Crandall, RDN, Denver wellness & Nutrition Director.
He is a consultant for Foodminds, which specializes “in food, beverage, nutrition, health and wellness.”
And this pull toward wellness has seemingly reached the masses.
Founded by global wellness company MindValley, Omvana is oft-referred to as the “Spotify of meditation apps.”
These 7 iPhone Apps for Meditation Make Us Want To Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale | Courtney Boyd Myers | January 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt these wellness retreats, the staff will kick your butt—and then spoil you silly.
The focus of the Nursing as Caring theory, then, is not toward an end product such as health or wellness.
Nursing as Caring | Anne BoykinDon't get discouraged if you can't suddenly change your life from shadow to sunshine, from illness to wellness.
Evening Round Up | William Crosbie HunterI gave My Lady a little sermon about her un-wellness, which I hope she will profit by and consent to seek for some advice.
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) | Edward GibbonI call it a disease of too-wellness, and I only know how to doctor sick people.
Betty Leicester | Sarah Orne Jewett
British Dictionary definitions for wellness
/ (ˈwɛlnəs) /
the state of being in good physical and mental health
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