Nutrition & Healthy Weight

Sustain a culture that values, enables, and supports healthy food choices. Provide access to healthy nutrition.

An organization must demonstrate that its culture promotes and encourages healthy food choices. The application provides many suggested ways to meet this requirement, not all required. However, you’ll be required to check off a sufficient number of boxes to demonstrate you are offering programming to help employees make healthy food choices. When evaluating your application, the Accreditation Review Board (ARB) will take into consideration your organizations size, number of locations and industry.

Sustain a culture that values, enables, and supports healthy weight management. Provide access to healthy weight management programming and/or services.

An organization must demonstrate that its company culture promotes and encourages healthy weight management. The application provides many suggested ways to meet this requirement, not all required. However, you’ll be required to check off a sufficient number of boxes to demonstrate you are offering programming to help employees maintain a healthy weight. When evaluating your application, the Accreditation Review Board (ARB) will take into consideration your organizations size, number of locations and industry.

Nutrition & Healthy Weight Best Practices

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Route 66

AlphaMed Press

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Route 66

The health and wellness initiative at AlphaMed Press focuses on fostering increased physical activity and sharing information on healthier diet options in a supportive and interactive team environment. Physical activity, like walking, can improve health and fitness by helping lose body fat and helping to prevent heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and certain cancers. AlphaMed Press conducted its second wellness program, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Route 66" in 2016.

At the beginning of the program, each...

Articles of Interest

Seven U.S. states now have adult obesity rates of 35 percent or higher

Joseph, Andrew

STAT

Addressing Obesity in the Workplace: The Role of Employers

Heinen, Luann and Helen Darling

National Business Group on Health

Research & Evidence

Unraveling How Obesity Fuels Cancer

Azvolinsky, Anna

Oxford Academic, Journal of the National Cancer Institute

The Impact of Weight Gain or Loss on Health Care Costs for Employees at the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Smith Carls,Ginger, PhD, Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD, Rachel Mosher Henke, PhD, Jennifer Bruno, BS, Fikry Isaac, MD, and Janice McHugh, DBA, RN, COHN-S

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Brochures/Reference

Smart Food Choices: How to Implement Food Service Guidelines in Public Facilities

The purpose of this document is to help you implement food service guidelines in your government work site or other public facilitya to increase the availability of healthier choices at food service venues, including cafeterias, concession stands, snack bars, and vending machines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends using the Health and Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions and Vending Operations from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the General Services Administration (GSA), but the action steps in this document are applicable to any food service guideline. The HHS/GSA guidelines include specific food and nutrition standards that are based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 and sustainability standards for food and food service operations.

External Resources

Nutrition & Healthy Weight

Worksite Wellness

Public Health Law Center

Employers across the country are exploring innovative approaches to worksite wellness policies that incorporate a broad vision of health. Increasingly, these initiatives are geared toward improving the health of the workplace through healthy food procurement and tobacco-free policies. As employers seek to reduce health care costs through the improvement of employee health, worksite wellness policies hold great promise in the movement toward greater health, productivity and well-being.

Healthy Eating

American Heart Association

Healthy eating starts with healthy food choices. You don’t need to be a chef to create nutritious, heart-healthy meals your family will love. Learn what to look for at the grocery store, restaurants, your workplace and any eating occasion.

Eat Healthy and Get Active

American Cancer Society

Learn about the benefits of good nutrition, regular physical activity, and staying at a healthy weight. We also offer guidance and tips to help you choose healthier options.

ACS Guidelines for Nutrition and Physical Activity

American Cancer Society

While it is not clear exactly how excess body fat, consuming too many calories, and lack of physical activity raise cancer risk, there is no question that they are linked to an increased risk of many types of cancer and that they are a serious and growing health problem.

Diet and Physical Activity

American Cancer Society

Get the facts on how diet, physical activity, excess body weight, and alcohol use may affect your risk of cancer.

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Nutrition & Healthy Weight

Sustain a culture that values, enables, and supports healthy food choices. Provide access to healthy nutrition.

Sustain a culture that values, enables, and supports healthy weight management. Provide access to healthy weight management programming and/or services.

Nutrition & Healthy Weight