Fit4Work: encourage healthy eating at work
More than a third of our ‘daily intake’ happens at work. Good reason to encourage healthy eating habits at work. A balanced, tasty diet gives you energy. Energy you need to do your work well.
Why is healthy eating important?
Healthy eating benefits both employees and employers, ensuring a fitter team, higher motivation, improved performance and less sickness absenteeism.
Employees consume over a third of what they eat each day at work. Healthy eating isn’t always easy.
- Half of Belgian employees do not drink enough water.
- 58% of Belgian employees have a BMI that is too high.
The workplace is therefore an important setting for encouraging healthy habits.
How do you tackle healthy eating at work?
Changing eating habits? It won’t happen overnight. Use Fit4Work to design a well-thought-out nutrition policy (EAT) for the greatest health impact:
- Gain insight into your range of nutrition services. First, identify your organisation’s current services.
- Draw up an action plan. Create a plan with measures that make it easy to make healthier choices.
- Take action. Put healthy choices into practice. Organise healthy activities that fit your organisation’s DNA.
- Make healthy eating part of your health policy. Create circumstances to make behavioural change achievable. For example, provide a fruit bowl instead of a vending machine full of unhealthy snacks.
Want to get started on a healthy eating policy with Fit4Work?
How can IDEWE help you promote healthy eating habits?
Our Fit4Work experts use a diverse range of services to support you and your employees in making healthy eating a habit. Before, during and after work.
Highlight the importance of healthy eating with your free introductory package
- Posters: ‘Add more vegetables to your diet!’, ‘Don’t skip meals’, ‘My favourite snacks’, ‘Eat to be healthy!’ and ‘Drink 1.5 litres of water per day’
- Brochures: ‘Tips for healthy eating around the clock’ and ‘Cholesterol’
Use a motivational talk or workshop to engage your employees
- Keynote by (former) elite athlete
- Workshops such as:
- ‘Healthy eating at work’: incorporate healthy eating habits into your day and learn why this is important.
- ‘Feeding my brain – nutrition and psychology’: learn how psychologal factors influence eating habits and how to make more conscious choices.
- ‘Power foods’: make healthy choices on busy days and discover which foods will energise you.
- ‘Basic principles for an energetic working day’: receive practical tips and tricks for a healthy, tasty diet.
- ‘Cooking healthy meals’: Want to learn how to prepare quick, healthy meals? This workshop offers helpful tips and techniques.
Tailored guidance for your team or individual employees
- Team process:
- Use a Company Fit Profile to identify what your organisation is doing in terms of health promotion.
- Encourage your employees to participate in healthy challenges.
- Personal process:
- Offer your employees personalised guidance with individual coaching, fitness measurements and e-learning modules.
Which choices will encourage your employees to eat more healthily?
What can you start doing yourself as an employer?
Your employees are responsible for which foods they eat and how. However, as an employer, you can have a positive impact on their eating and drinking habits:
- Provide a balanced selection of foods and drinks. Use the food pyramid as inspiration.
- Encourage your employees to make healthier choices. For example, they could ‘replace one little thing’ and have water instead of a soft drink. Or a healthier snack.
- Don’t serve alcohol during work lunches and provide non-alcoholic options at parties. Fruity mocktails can be very cheerful.
- Use fun initiatives to stimulate lasting, healthy habits.
Want to help your employees get healthy exercise?
Use this form to propose a challenge to our experts or request your introductory package, workshop or process.