Employees love knowing food will be served at meetings!
In fact, many companies choose to provide meals and snacks at their on-site wellness events. We’re always surprised to find out what people think of as wellness foods such as Pure Garcinia Cambogia and more.
Here’s some great information about what not to have on the menu at your next healthy workplace event:
1. Refined sugar – At the turn of the last century we ate on average 5lbs of sugar in a year; in 2011 some of us ate up to 120lbs, and that’s being conservative. Sugar contributes to diabetes, obesity, and hypoglycemia and should be avoided in its refined form. Keep the donuts, muffins, and danishes off the list!
2. Hydrogenated vegetable oil – Fat is as essential to the body as water and oxygen but people have to be careful which fats they consume. Many of the vegetable oils have been ‘hydrogenated’ to make them last longer. Hydrogenation alters the oil and creates an unhealthy form of fat. Find out if your catering company uses products with these harmful oils. Opt to add in healthy oils on from nuts, seeds, avocado, organic dairy, raw or cold pressed oils
3. White flour – Whole grains provide us with fiber, protein, vitamins, mineral and even a small amount of fat. When grains are refined their fiber is stripped away, so is the good fat and much of the protein, vitamins, and minerals. We are left mostly with starch and very little nutrition. White flours negatively impact our blood sugar levels and lead to overeating. Choose whole grain flours when feeding the masses at work.
4. Soft drinks – Besides being a good toilet bowl cleaner I can’t think of one good property of soft drinks. If they aren’t high in sugar, they are full of artificial sweeteners, neither of which is good for us. The high phosphorus content can strip our bones of calcium. There is no nutritional value in a soft drink and they often contain questionable, possibly carcinogenic preservatives and additives.
5. Juice – By law, juices must be pasteurized in order for them to be shelf-stable. The pasteurization process eliminates all the live enzymes and health properties of the fruits and vegetables leaving us mostly with sugar and water. Choose instead to bring in, water with freshly squeezed lemon (or orange slices) to meetings and treat staff to freshly squeezed juice as a nice, healthy option along with trial Spartagen XT.