Provide an environment that supports healthy eating.

Sample Activities:

• Adopt policies to promote healthy eating among employees.
• Conduct a healthy food environment assessment.
• Establish a breastfeeding-friendly worksite to include policy and environmental supports.
• Provide healthy food and beverage options for employees during the workday, including cafeteria meals and vending machines.
• Use point of decision prompts to encourage healthy food purchases at the worksite.
• Provide employees with onsite education and resources related to nutrition.
• Support and promote farm to worksite programs.
• Establish a worksite garden.

Tools:

American Heart Association’s Start! Healthy Eating Program

CDC Garden Market Toolkit

Families Eating Smart Moving More

CDC Lactation Support Toolkit

Guidelines for Offering Healthy Foods at Meetings, Seminars, and Catered Events

Bring Fresh Produce to Your Setting

The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions

Accommodations for Breastfeeding in the Workplace

Worksites Eating Smart

Wisconsin Worksite Wellness Resource Kit to Prevent Obesity and Related Chronic Diseases

Promoting Healthy Weight Through Healthy Dining at Work Toolkit

Homegrown: South Carolina’s Guide to Starting or Enhancing Your Community’s Farmers’ Market

Farm to Work Toolkit

The Business Case for Breastfeeding Toolkit

Investing in Workplace Breastfeeding Programs and Policies: An Employer’s Toolkit

Investing in Health: Evidence-Based Health Promotion Practices for Workplaces

Cooper Institute and CDC – Personal Empowerment Plan

WELCOA Quick Culture Inventory

The Well Workplace Checklist

Healthy Babies, Healthy Business

LEANWorks! Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition

Guide to Community Preventive Services.  Obesity Prevention: worksite programs to control overweight and obesity

School Employee Wellness: A Guide for Protecting the Assets of Our Nation’s Schools