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Do you want to:

• Improve staff productivity

• Lower sickness levels

• Boost employee morale and loyalty

• Reduce health care costs

• Enhance retention, and

• Stay ahead of your competition?

Down To Earth Nutrition can help your organisation address these issues by offering:

• Nutritional seminars/workshops covering a range of nutritional topics

• On-site nutritional consultations to your employees

Client Reference: "Shirley has recently given a presentation to my team of Nurses; this was very clear, informative and concise, interesting and well presented...it was obviously well planned with lovely handouts and literature for all"

Carolyn, Senior Nurse, RED ARC Assured Ltd

Did You Know?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that adequate nourishment can raise productivity levels by 20%. If you as an employer rely on the performance level of your staff for the productivity and efficiency of your company, supporting the health of your team makes perfect sense

According to WHO, scientific evidence supports the view that alterations in diet have strong effects on health throughout a person’s lifetime. Therefore, employers who take steps to support their employees’ health through healthy eating and lifestyle changes gain both current and future benefits

Preventative care is the most cost effective solution; don't let the cost of poor employee health habits fritter away your profits

Be proactive; invest in preventative health care

Recent Statistics Worth Considering:

With Britons working longer and harder than ever before, health and wellbeing are increasingly becoming workplace issues. Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive* show that over 30 million working days are lost each year from people taking time off because of work related illness or injury. This is a big cost to businesses

*Health and Safety Executive Statistics – www.hse.gov.uk - 8.10.07 Reproduced under the terms of the OPSI Click-use licence

The Department of Health believes two million people have suffered an illness they perceive has been caused by, or made worse by, their work. Therefore rates of sickness absence can increase, causing a reduction in productivity, leading to a dent in profits

Employee absence costs to business is significant. Ill health is estimated to cost the UK economy 28 million working days per years*. Productivity lost due to stress and other mental health concerns costs £25 billion per year

(*HSE 2006)

Down To Earth Nutrition can help your organisation address these issues by delivering tailored nutritional solutions

Services include:

1. One-to-One Employee Nutritional Consultations:

These provide overall health improvement advice or address specific health issues

Nutritional Therapist is provided and able to see 4 employees per day (each employee receives a bespoke written report of recommendations)

Duration of each consultation: one hour (completion of case history by employee prior to appointment)

Where? Held in room provided by employer

2. Workshops:

The aim of all workshops is to educate employees in a positive, interactive way and give each employee the tools to improve their health

Duration of each workshop is one hour, encompassing a 15 minute question and answer session at the end

Maximum of 10 attendees per session

Topics Available:

A. Weight Management:

A recent report by Foresight*, written by 250 leading scientists, warns Britain's obesity crisis is so severe that it would take at least 30 years to reverse. If current trends continue, by 2050 fifty percent of adults and twenty five percent of children in the UK will be clinically obese. The report expects Type 2 diabetes to rise by seventy percent.

*The 2007 Foresight Report 'Tackling Obesities: Future Choices' http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/aio/8268011

Excess weight increases the risk of a number of chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease

What Benefits Can This Workshop Bring?

This workshop provides your employees with the tools to balance and maintain their weight, by:

• Nutritional advice: explaining why diets don’t keep weight off. Explanation of blood sugar balance; healthy food that provides sustainable energy, that doesn’t contribute to excessive weight gain

• Lifestyle advice: identifying and addressing factors in lifestyle that can contribute to weight gain

• Employees leave armed with easy to prepare recipes and snack ideas

• Handout summarising weight management advice

B. Managing Stress:

Stress is cited as one of the key factors for sickness in staff

A recent survey (skillsoft Dec 2008) found 92.4% of people find life at work stressful all, or at least some of the time; 29.4% are comfort eating or dieting to extremes and 22.2% of respondents did nothing to alleviate the stress that they feel at work

Work-related stress accounts for over a third of all new incidences of ill health with each case leading to an average of 30.9 working days lost*

*www.hse.gov.uk - All statistics reproduced under the terms of the OPSI Click-use licence

What Benefits Can This Workshop Bring?

As well as reducing productivity and concentration levels, regular stress can increase the risk of a number of chronic conditions, such as obesity, digestive issues, food intolerances and premature ageing

This workshop can reduce this risk by:

• Giving your employees the information to address stress and improve their health

• You as the employer contribute to reducing costly levels of employee sickness by providing them with this workshop

• Demonstrates to the employee that you their employer care about their health and well-being. This demonstrates both understanding and a proactive approach to your duty of care as regards their health and well-being

This workshop covers:

• Identifying “internal” stressors and addressing these to reduce stress levels

• Foods that can help protect against the damaging effects of stress

• Lifestyle recommendations to reduce “external” stressors

• Easy to prepare recipes and snacks containing de-stressing, “protective” foods

• Handout summarising stress reduction advice

C. Improve Energy & Productivity Levels:

A number of employee surveys have shown that over 70% of employees support employer involvement in workplace health promotion programs and 85% believe that workplace programs can increase health and lower health costs

£17bn p.a. wiped off UK productivity because of poor working day eating habits, a study carried out by Baxterstorey, November 07 (www.baxterstorey.com) revealed

What Benefits Can This Workshop Bring?

Diet and lifestyle have a major impact on energy and productivity levels; this workshop explains how you as an employer can help your employees improve energy and productivity levels

This workshop covers:

• What the body needs for efficient, sustainable energy production and how to ensure this

• Identification of potential factors that reduce/block energy levels and how to address these

• Focuses on “brain” foods to ensure efficient brain functioning, to help improve concentration and productivity levels

• Easy to prepare meal and snack ideas, to improve and maintain energy and productivity levels

• Handout summarising advice for improved productivity and energy levels

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