We spend most of our time during the day in our workplaces. Thus, it is not possible to provide our daily nutrition at home. The intense work schedule that most of us are already in obliges us to eat at work.
Today's business life brings with it stress, long working hours spent at the desk, in front of the computer, shift work system and frequent travels. This lifestyle causes the incidence of obesity to increase day by day among employees. Be aware of your negative nutritional behaviors and never give up on eating right and healthy, even if we are working individuals.
Healthy Nutrition = Happiness = Success
Nutrition in the workplace When the shape is healthy, correct and satisfactory, it directly affects the health, workforce, productivity and work motivation of the employees. Thus, success and happiness come with it.
Recently, some workplaces are also aware of the importance of the issue.
For example; The number of workplaces that receive consultancy from Dietitians on Healthy Nutrition and Menu Planning and ensure that their employees are informed about healthy nutrition and implement it is increasing day by day. Because healthy nutrition affects employees positively in every aspect; It also positively affects the prospective employer.
So what should we do?
- Make sure to start the day with breakfast. Hunger causes fatigue, reluctance and low blood sugar, all of which negatively affect a person's work motivation and efficiency.
- To reduce work stress, 15 hours a day at work. Take minute walks.
- Prefer to walk more on your way to work, or get off a few stops earlier, or park your car in a distant place.
- Use less elevators.
- Employees in the workplace can be given a menu prepared with the support of a Dietician for lunch, so that employees can have an adequate and balanced diet in the workplace; Possible health problems will also be greatly reduced; It may even disappear. Because With a healthy diet, a person's body resistance will increase and thus the risk of contracting diseases will decrease.
Thus; Absences at work will decrease and attendance at work will increase, meaning any disruptions that may occur will be eliminated.
- Instead of consuming soft drinks, take a jug of water to your desk with lemon slices + fresh mint in it. and add cinnamon bark, this will make you feel more fit.
- Prefer herbal teas instead of tea and coffee. Consume fennel to eliminate indigestion that may occur at lunch, especially as it reduces stress, and consume sage and linden for the immune system. Choose green tea and mate tea to increase your metabolic rate.
- People who have to travel frequently have to eat little and often to maintain their weight and eat healthy. . Fat-free crackers with buttermilk, dried apricots, dates, walnuts or almonds, 1 portion of fruit, half a tea glass of roasted chickpea, half a bagel with cheese, fat-free toast and ayran are practical and healthy choices that can be found everywhere.
- Stay away from cookies served at meetings. Instead of these, you can choose fat-free crackers, diet biscuits, whole wheat breadsticks, quarter bagels, dried apricots, seeded raisins and walnuts, whole wheat sandwiches with cheese, raw vegetables and herbal teas.
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- The appearance, taste and smell of the food served must be pleasant, so that it satisfies the consumer in every aspect. ; When a person wakes up from eating, he is full and does not turn to junk food.
- As a result of the study conducted by the International Labor Organization (ILO); It has been proven that malnutrition in workplaces negatively affects the health and work efficiency of employees.
In the study; bad in developing countries ü nutrition and obesity are very common and for this reason alone; It has been stated that there is a 20% loss in work productivity all over the world.
The research found that nutrition in the workplace is generally seen as a "necessity" or a "trouble" by employers, thus missing the opportunity to increase productivity at work and the morale of employees.
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