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.

Best Practices

Community Supported Agriculture

RTI International

Community Supported Agriculture

RTI International has made a commitment to sustaining a culture that values, enables, and supports healthy food choices, while providing access to healthy nutrition for the staff. In 2002, as part of a Golden LEAF Foundation initiative, NC State University's Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) teamed with the NC Cooperative Extension Service and RTI to organize a community supported agriculture (CSA) program for local farmers and Research Triangle Park employees.. The first deliveries took place in the summer of 2003, and...

Articles of Interest

Ultra-Processed Diet Leads to Extra Calories, Weight Gain

Collins, Frances

NIH Director's Blog

Higher consumption of sugary beverages linked with increased risk of mortality

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Research & Evidence

The Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence - Workshop Summary

Institute of Medicine

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

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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.

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.

Obesity and Cancer

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Despite the limitations of the study designs, there is consistent evidence that higher amounts of body fat are associated with increased risks of a number of cancers.

Nutrition Tools and Resources

NIH: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

These tools and resources help families and communities better understand nutrition and the important role healthy eating plays in maintaining a healthy weight.

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

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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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.

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