Is your work environment a healthy one?

How do we ensure our places of work are not just absent of diseases and infirmity, but are also places of physical, mental and social well being?

I believe nutrition has a significant role to play here. It is well publicised that we are experiencing an obesity epidemic. The cost of obesity related illness, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke… is crippling the NHS. Is it damaging our workplaces too? Our working environments have an important role to play in our health, we are after all spending on average 40% of our waking hours there. In this article I am going to discuss one vital area that affects our health in the workplace, lunch breaks.

Skipping meals, eating at our desks in front of a PC, relying on snacks instead of a nutritious meal, leaves no time to rest, move, talk and re-focus in preparation for a productive afternoon.

Did you know lack of adequate sleep and rest lead to overeating? Restrictions lead to binges. As a Nutrition Coach, I know this only too well. Coaching clients who have in the past or are in the present restricting themselves of meal times and food in general, only end up binging on fast, convenient sugary snacks to give them the pick-up they need to get them through the rest of their working day. Sound familiar?