The biggest fallacy about healthy life is that it is some sort of sophisticated, magical process, which takes years of study in order to understand. – R. Gignac & M. Townshend (rephrased) 

 

WellnessAid is an online health portal with a mission to change the world.

WellnessAid Idea

WellnessAid mission is to change the world by making it healthier and happier. One person at a time. One community at a time.

To achieve this the first step is to change the current paradigm of health. Partial solutions and quick fixes will not work. We advocate for a systematic change and adopting a new health model based on true health determinants.

More then 2,500 years ago people already knew the basic principles of healthy and happy life. The Ancient Greeks and other great civilizations on Earth discovered these principles and recorded them for us in their writings and art.

Modern science rediscovered those principles, enriched them and presented them to us. We know for a fact that our health is shaped by a set of factors, health determinants. There is no doubt that our health is formed by things like social bonds, happy childhood, clean environment, health practices and many others. These factors have huge impact on our health.

To be healthy we need to build our health determinants and learn to use them to our advantage. Somehow we forget this in our everyday busy lives. Maybe a part of the problem is the “buzz” created by those commercial companies that are trying to push their "miracle cures" products and services.

WellnessAid Action

There is an abundance of great health information and resources available on the internet. WellnessAid wants to connect you to the bests of it. We want you to see it all from a perspective. We want to help our users to take a broad look on their lives in order to see what is really going on.

That is why we organize all information available on our portal around the “Ten Folders of Health”. By doing this we hope to create a new standard in wellness industry. This simple thing, we believe, will help to change the spirit of the whole wellness industry. We hope that from competition (“my product is all you need to be healthy”) it will move to collaboration (“here’s how our product can add to your overall wellbeing”).

We want to bring you all the best health resources available online. However, even the biggest company with a lot of staff would find it hard to sift through billions of web-pages and select the best. But more importantly, we believe that no one is a better judge about the usefulness of that information than our users themselves.

We believe in collective wisdom. We believe that enthusiastic online community of committed people can accomplish this challenging task. We rely on you, our citizen contributors to help us to build this resource by sharing the links to the health topics that you find interesting with other WellnessAid users by posting them in our portal.

We rely on democratic principles and believe that the WellnessAid online community will create a new knowledge by adding, ranking, commenting and distributing the topics posted on this portal. We believe that this will create a momentum leading to a profound change in health of many people and communities around the world.

WellnessAid Integrity

To keep WellnessAid website free for our users and support its operations we accept a limited number of sponsored links to be posted on our website (here’s information on becoming our sponsor).

However, to accomplish our mission and provide the most relevant health information to ur users we do not sell placement within the sections of our portal. No one can buy a higher ranking for a particular topic displayed in the results section. It’s determined solely by the votes of our users. We belive that this will ensure that WellnessAid will connect all our users to the best websites with information most relevant to their needs.

We also belive in supporting good causes. If you are passionate about a particular wellness issue and think we can be of any help, get in touch with us and we will go out of our way to try to support you.

Future Developments

We have just launched this test version of our website a few months ago. Some of our functions still do not work. We are working on them as fast as we can.

Currently WellnessAid is offered in English only. We are planning to make it available in many other languages, for example Chinese, Bahasa Melayu, Russian.

WellnessAid website is always evolving. We appreciate and would love to hear your feedback and ideas...