Supportive Work Environment: Nutrition
Many employees consume a significant amount of food while at work. Food from employer-sponsored cafeterias, vending machines, and meetings typically are not as nutritious or healthy as items employees prepare at home. Poor nutrition is an underlying factor to many conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Making healthy food available at work is a significant way for employers to promote and encourage good health.
Recommended Activities
- Healthy Weight Control Programs
These tools and resources can help employees consider and participate in healthy weight control programs as well as "friendly" weight competitions to avoid the common weight gain around the holiday season.- Alkar-RapidPak Holiday Season Weight Pool
- Are You Active Enough? Using a Pedometer to Measure Physical Activity
- Calculate Your Body Mass Index
- Overweight and Obesity
- Pitney Bowes Obesity Initiative
- Small Steps, Big Rewards
- Step-by-Step: Walking Your Way to Wellness
- Webcrafters Pursues 'Lighten Up' Wellness Strategy
- Webcrafters Lighten Up Program
- WeightWatchers Corporate Solutions
- Healthy Options for Meetings and Luncheons
These reports offer ideas on how employers can provide healthy beverage and food options during meetings and work-related events.
- Vending Machines
These examples show how employers can work with their vending machine company to provide healthier options to their employees. Some employers create pricing plans to subsidize healthy options like apples and yogurt.
- Cafeteria Options
These sample policies show how employers can create policy statements that encourage healthy food choices through their cafeteria offerings.