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Healthy Eating: Education and Skill Building

To coincide with raising awareness about nutrition and making changes to the nutrition environment of the workplace, implementing education and skill building activities can also help promote healthy eating among employees.

Consider:

Implementing a healthy breakfast or lunch challenge
Organizing a series of lunch 'n learn sessions
Distributing informative nutrition fact sheets to employees

These are just a few of the activities available to you through the York Region Nutrition Works program. A Public Health Nutritionist can meet with you to discuss how to tailor the program to your workplace.

Education and Skill Building Activities:

Workshops (Each workshop is 1 hour and offered by a Public Health Nutritionist. A minimum of 15 participants is required)

Super Foods for Optimal Health: This workshop explores the top foods for optimal lifetime health, performance and disease prevention

Look at the Label: Reading a food label can be challenging but it is an important part of understanding the food you eat. This hands-on workshop will help employees learn how to interpret food labels and make informed healthier food choices

Healthy Eating� on the Go: This interactive workshop will provide practical healthy eating guidelines, menu planning and time-saving tips. Learn tasty and easy healthy eating ideas for busy people on the go

Healthy Weight: Weighing in on Dieting: Confused about all the popular diets out there? Want to learn whether there is any validity to their claims and theories? This workshop uncovers how body weight affects health and the best strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight

Shift work and Nutrition: Shift workers are more prone to heart and weight problems but proper nutrition can help combat these challenges. This workshop helps employees eat their best while working around the clock

What's in Your Child's Lunch Bag?: Through this interactive workshop, employees will discuss the challenges and solutions to preparing healthy school lunches and snacks for children

Healthy Eating... on the Move: This workshop explores the best food and beverage choices to have before, during and after your workout

Workshops are only offered to workplaces that are committed to making changes to the nutrition environment.

Click here for the Healthy Eating on the Go webinar. Learn how to make healthy eating choices at home, work and when dining out.

Challenges:

Engage employees in fun and interactive challenges.

Nutrition e-bulletin: Bi-weekly messages provide interesting nutrition information, tips and recipes. Online subscription is free

Nutrition Fact Sheets: Communicate health messages to your employees with ready-to-use pay cheque inserts. They can also be left in employees' mail boxes, posted on bulletin boards or sent electronically

Please see the Nutrition Works program menu for a listing of all workplace activities offered.

If you are interested in the Nutrition Works program, please complete the Nutrition Works Screening Tool to learn what action steps are needed for a successful nutrition program and determine your workplace's eligibility for the program.