How important is the nutrition newsletter at your workplace?

Posted by Aarti Shah on March 13th, 2019

The choices that one makes - food and other lifestyle related changes, has a large impact on one’s health and wellbeing. The small benefits that come with the changes is an encouragement for more consciousness about the choices made. Adults spend a large part of their waking hours at their workplace. Employees that eat well are also employees who feel better, energetic and are more productive. So, it is in the interest of the employers to take up corporate wellness programs as an initiative and provide employee wellness services that are directed towards improving their health. These will in turn play a key role in weight management as well as management of health conditions like diabetes, hypertension, etc.

Promoting a culture of eating healthy at workplace is the first step to promote corporate wellness for employees. This starts with educating them and creating an awareness. A good help in this direction would be to start with a nutrition and wellness newsletter to impart information that is scientifically backed with accurate, evidence based articles that are written by a qualified and trusted authority.

Corporate wellness companies with their qualified professionals can help design nutrition and wellness newsletters as a part of employee health and wellness programs. These newsletters can contain information from various health problems to healthy recipes, simple exercise techniques, methods to relieve work stress and also techniques to deal to with it.

HOW DO NUTRITION NEWSLETTERS BENEFIT EMPLOYEES?

1. Trustworthy information: Easy internet access, social media and many other sources for information has made it very difficult to find authentic and right information on health and nutrition today. It is difficult to identify what is accurate and trustworthy and what is just some new idea or a fad. Also, there is a constant barrage of new information which is difficult to keep up with. Nutrition newsletters written by qualified nutritionists guarantee trusted and authentic content that is scientifically proven and accurate thus contributing to employee wellness.

2. Improves overall health: Employee education is the first step in helping making right choices. A health and wellness newsletter is a great addition to any corporate wellness program. The newsletter could include an array of topics like healthy eating tips, information on basic eating guidelines, healthy recipes, how to eat healthy on the go, etc. Employees are likely to benefit from this information by slowly incorporating small changes into their lifestyle.

3. Increased productivity: When employers take initiatives for employee’s health by initiating employee wellness programs it helps increase presenteeism and also increases worker productivity.

4. Not only does the employee benefit from the information but also the family and friends can benefit with the circulated information thus helping the society at large.

Investing in corporate wellness programs has an impact on the company, both monetarily as well as in terms of time commitment. However, the company will see larger savings in terms of decreased absenteeism and higher productivity. Newsletters, as a part of the employee wellness programs are one of the many tools to bring about lifestyle changes in the employees. Employees who have access to accurate and well written newsletters have a better chance of living healthy lifestyle that will help them prevent from developing health complications like diabetes, hypertension, heart problems, overweight or obesity and also improve the quality of life.