Program Plan for healthy eating in the workplace
This workplace healthy eating program will be developed to target some of areas through different strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of the workers. According to the survey in Australia, most of adverse health outcomes due to poor nutrition is related to excess intake of high energy-dense food that is high in saturated fat, added or refined sugars , and also limited intake of nutrient dense foods such as vegetable and fruit to cause deficiency in certain important nutrients in Australian (National Public Health Partnership, 2001). Therefore, workers need a program for helping them to meet the Australian dietary guidelines and gain adequate nutrients to reduce the risk of chronic disease. …show more content…
The rationale is creating policies can ensure workplace provides healthy food and help workers easier to make healthier food choices. Other findings suggested supportive of change by employers to cause the worker increase in intake fruit and vegetable (Backman et al., 2004). Moreover, a literature suggested using policies could build up social norms to encourage workers to adopt healthier dietary behaviors and promote the fruit and vegetable consumption (Kahn-Marshall & Gallant, …show more content…
The first strategy is to increase install a sustain water dispenser within the work site for worker easier to access the safe drinking water. The reason is to create a consistent supportive facility that is often essential to achieve and maintain a change in a long term. There is an evidence also showed change the work environment can have a significant influence on the improvement of healthy eating behaviors (Story, 2008).
The second strategy is that employers can provide all employees a refillable bottle for them to carry the water. This strategy can encourage them to consume more water and may be able to limit workers to access the unhealthy beverages such as sugar-sweetened drink or soft drink. In addition, employers provide a positive environment that is important to encourage workers to engaging this action and change the healthy eating behavior. A research also demonstrated workers increase to consume one or more liter of water per day after they received the water bottle in the work place (Hess, Borg, & Rissel,
This workplace healthy eating program will be developed to target some of areas through different strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of the workers. According to the survey in Australia, most of adverse health outcomes due to poor nutrition is related to excess intake of high energy-dense food that is high in saturated fat, added or refined sugars , and also limited intake of nutrient dense foods such as vegetable and fruit to cause deficiency in certain important nutrients in Australian (National Public Health Partnership, 2001). Therefore, workers need a program for helping them to meet the Australian dietary guidelines and gain adequate nutrients to reduce the risk of chronic disease. …show more content…
The rationale is creating policies can ensure workplace provides healthy food and help workers easier to make healthier food choices. Other findings suggested supportive of change by employers to cause the worker increase in intake fruit and vegetable (Backman et al., 2004). Moreover, a literature suggested using policies could build up social norms to encourage workers to adopt healthier dietary behaviors and promote the fruit and vegetable consumption (Kahn-Marshall & Gallant, …show more content…
The first strategy is to increase install a sustain water dispenser within the work site for worker easier to access the safe drinking water. The reason is to create a consistent supportive facility that is often essential to achieve and maintain a change in a long term. There is an evidence also showed change the work environment can have a significant influence on the improvement of healthy eating behaviors (Story, 2008).
The second strategy is that employers can provide all employees a refillable bottle for them to carry the water. This strategy can encourage them to consume more water and may be able to limit workers to access the unhealthy beverages such as sugar-sweetened drink or soft drink. In addition, employers provide a positive environment that is important to encourage workers to engaging this action and change the healthy eating behavior. A research also demonstrated workers increase to consume one or more liter of water per day after they received the water bottle in the work place (Hess, Borg, & Rissel,