Promoting healthy eating pattern in working days

Overview: - Kuwait health status .

- Small steps counts.

- Work Occupies our days.

- Risk factors & unhealthy eating pattern.

- How to implement healthy behaviors in busy working life ?.

- Healthy choices for a blooming career , wellbeing ,& long healthy life .

Kuwait Health Status :

Small Steps count:

Work Occupies our days.

• Work means to function , to function you need energy , and energy means FOOD.

• We spend most of our day time working , and while working we build ourselves regarding personality , life style , and eating habits; Moreover it has a great influence in how we will be spending the rest of our day .

• -Work environment creates an atmosphere of continues rush , time shortage , stress , instability shifting , over times , banquets , travelling .

• -All of these are factors for contributes to eating disorders such binge eating , constipation ,ulcers , IBS , sleeping apnea , nutrients deficiencies or obesity which leads to diabetes , CVDs ,& much more health conditions .

Risk factors &unhealthy eating pattern.

• 1-Skipping meals , specially Breakfast .

• 2-binge eating ( uncontrolled portion size ).

3-Having junk food ,fast food meals and take away for lunch , brunch or breakfast (low nutritive quality).

4-Approximately rare consumption of vegetables , fruits, whole grain and nutritious rich food .

5-office work required no physical activity.

6-Forget drinking water .

- How to implement healthy behaviors in busy working life ?

1- you wake up early everyday ; don’t miss your break fast .

2 -Eat every three hours (small portion to stop binge eating).

3-Snack on fruit , vegetables or healthy whole grain snack bars.

4- Keep a water bottle on your desk or carry it on your purse , hydrate all the day long.

5- take the stairs instead of the elevator and try to move as much as you can.

6-Enjoy your meal eat slowly and chew properly.

7- Plan your meal for lunch ahead bring a home cooked healthy meal with the consideration to portion size with fresh salad , this will help you control your craves and eat less.

8- Create a support team among your colleagues and implement healthy behaviors and choices together.

9-Have a light dinner , Green salad , bowel of fruit salad , Flavored yogurt or an light sandwich . Not pass 8 pm.

10- Try to be active daily at least for 30 min , weather by walking around the block , jumping with a rope in your house , or following an

aerobics video . And remember Small steps count!!

-Healthy choices for a blooming career , wellbeing ,& long healthy life .