Healthy Eating

This section gives information on how we aim to help employers improve their eating habits.

The importance of promoting healthy eating

Good nutrition can help to reduce the prevalence of many common diseases including cardiovascular disease, 
cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis and dental caries.

Healthy eating and the workplace

Adults can spend up to 60% of their waking hours in a work environment, and may eat one or more meals 
and snacks at work.
Work provides an opportunity to positively influence eating habits by increasing the accessibility of healthy 
foods in work canteens, and also by increasing awareness of healthy eating and its role in determining health.
This, in turn, can translate into the family environment and can potentially have further reaching effects 
for other family members.
This programme seeks to achieve a healthier workforce by looking at factors in the workplace which 
healthy eating through education campaigns, access to healthier foods, and policies which 
promote healthy choices.