The effectiveness of Nutrition

WHO describes the workplace as the priority environment to influence healthy life changes. Workers’ health status is linked with productivity and happiness at the workplace, therefore, having healthier workers leads to higher levels of productivity and happiness at work.

Interventions that educate workers about well-balanced meals, portion sizes, how to make smart choices regarding salt and sugar alternatives, how to eat whole grains and how to increase vegetables intake are positively correlated with health behaviors.

The real impact isn’t only in productivity and in a good environment at the workplace since the knowledge acquired can also be applied at home, which will impact the whole family in a positive way.

Beyond all the health benefits that nutrition could have, promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary activities could also promote social, mental and economic domains which benefit the whole organization itself.

“A systematic review proved that several nutrition and health interventions in the workplace setting resulted in an improvement of healthy behavior, as well as anthropometric and biochemical indicators. Further, nutrition and health intervention can be implemented in workplaces as a way to increase work-related productivity, reduce employees’ disease burden costs and improve general health status.”