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World Benchmarking Alliance confirms: Workforce Nutrition offers untapped opportunities
Influential food and agriculture companies make progress on food systems transformation As we were celebrating World Food Day on 16 October 2022, the World Benchmarking Alliance disclosed its latest findings, assessing 22 food and agriculture companies from G7 countries (“G7 Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative” / SSCI) [link to report]. Together, these companies represent some USD […]
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US Access to Nutrition Index 2022 – the pivotal role of workforce nutrition programmes
Access to Nutrition Initiative’s recent US Access to Nutrition Index 2022 compared commitments of the eleven largest food manufacturers operating in the US about the delivery of healthy, affordable food and beverages to help consumers have healthier diets and prevent hunger. These include Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, Conagra Brands, General Mills, Kellogg, Keurig Dr Pepper, Kraft […]
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Two one-hour kick-off webinars on workforce nutrition at worksites – New edition of Fast Track for Leaders starts in October 2022
10 October is World Mental Health Day. Whilst the pandemic has, and continues to, take its toll on our mental health, society pays for the rising mental health costs, but employers do so as well through lost productivity and increased demand for healthcare services by their employees. Mental health and employee wellbeing are interconnected topics on top […]
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Food for mood: you feel what you eat – Five nutritional evidence-based steps about mental health
By Bärbel Weiligmann and Geke Lobregt — The role of the employer in supporting nutritional and mental health of employees while at work has never been more pronounced than it is today. In March 2022, the WHO wrote how the ‘COVID-19 pandemic triggers 25% increase in prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide’, representing a real challenge […]
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Evidence Brief – Mental Health and Nutrition at the Workplace
This evidence brief focuses on the link between mental health and nutrition. The evidence will be presented using the Workforce Nutrition framework’s four pillars of workforce nutrition programmes, which are Healthy Food at Work, Nutrition Education, Nutrition Focused Health Checks, and Workplace Breastfeeding Support.
