Office potlucks are a great way to bring your employees and team together – who doesn’t love to bond over food? Unfortunately, regular potlucks, birthday celebrations, and holidays aren’t the best for healthy choices at the office. With cupcakes, soda, chips, and other junk food filling up most of the table, employees are tempted to overindulge.

However, an office potluck doesn’t have to be synonymous with unhealthy eating. Hosting a healthier version of an office potluck is an excellent way to encourage healthy eating among employees. Read on to learn how your employees will benefit from a healthy potluck and some ideas on how to make it healthy and delicious: 

Leading a busy life can make eating healthy challenging. After all, eating well takes time and effort that might seem like too much to fit in your schedule. But what if we told you that this effort would only cost you about two hours a week or less? Meet your ultimate workweek solution: meal prep.

Meal prepping is a total game-changer when it comes to eating healthy. It makes positive nutritional choices convenient and appealing throughout a busy workweek. Plus, it will keep you from picking up fast food over a lunch break because you'll already have a fresh, delicious meal ready to pop into the microwave! 

If meal prepping isn’t currently part of your routine, it probably seems like an inconvenient and daunting task, but we promise it’s not! Once you get into the swing of things, meal prepping will become a weekly routine that you won’t be able to live without, and it will help you eat well during and after a chaotic day at the office.

Sometimes there’s a fine line between what you should and shouldn’t encourage your employees to do. After all, you’re a part of their work life, so you shouldn’t go traipsing into their personal life too much. That doesn’t mean you can't care about their well-being in all aspects of life. 

So, how do you address something like a healthy diet? Here are some ideas that can help you encourage healthy eating without being too pushy.

You know you’re supposed to limit added sugar in your diet, but even if you steer clear of M&M's and donuts chances are you’re eating more sugar than you think. The scariest part about sugar is that it’s hidden in a lot of everyday foods. Even when we think we are eating healthy, we may be consuming way too much added sugar. According to the American Heart Association, the maximum amount of added sugars you should eat in a day is:

Women: 100 calories per day (25 grams or 6 teaspoons)

Men: 150 calories per day (37.5 grams or 9 teaspoons)

*Based on a 2,000 calorie diet

With most Americans tripling or even quadrupling this recommend intake of sugar, it’s not uncommon to be addicted to sugar. Check out these warning signs below to determine if you’re eating too much sugar:

When we think of eating healthy, most of us only focus on what types of foods we are consuming. We often forget that a major part of eating healthy starts with forming healthy eating habits.

You may need to change some of your daily habits to eat more nutritious food. But don’t worry — it’s not as hard as it sounds!

Forming healthy eating habits will actually make it easier for you to eat healthily and go back to enjoying eating rather than getting anxious about every meal. Whether you’re trying to lose weight or just eat a healthier, balanced diet, forming these habits will help you achieve your goals and feel more confident about your eating habits:

When it comes to living a healthy and happier life, there are many conflicting messages out there that may confuse your employees or make them feel like a healthy lifestyle isn’t achievable. However, we want to help you make wellness simple, effective, and practical for your employees. To do this, we recommend three key pillars for employers to focus on: eat, move, and live.

Eat, move, and live are three pillars of focus that we believe will make a positive impact on your employees’ health and overall life. Employers should educate employees on the positive benefits of eating healthy, being physical active, and making healthy choices–for both the body and mind.

We get it, starting a corporate wellness program for the first time sounds scary and intimidating. If you are thinking about launching a wellness program, you may not know where to start or what steps to take.

We want to help take some of the guesswork out of launching a wellness program. These basic steps are simpler than you might think, and they will work for companies of all sizes and demographics.

If you’re looking to create a healthy workplace by empowering employees in their work and personal lives, here’s how to launch a successful wellness program:

Being a wellness manager is hard work. Between planning wellness events and implementing new, creative strategies to improve the health of employees, your day is bound to get a little hectic and stressful. To help you out we put together a list of our favorite tips that will boost productivity and keep you focused and energized throughout your workday:

Do your least favorite task first. We all have that one daily or weekly task that we dread. Get it done first! If you procrastinate it, it will continue to hang over your head and put a dent in your productivity level. Whether it’s a small task or big task, just get it done. The satisfaction of checking it off your to-do list will leave you feeling confident and productive all day.

Did you know that numbers could save your life? Sure, you probably know “911” as the ultimate life-saving number, but your health numbers are just as important to know by heart!

When it comes to measuring individual health, knowing your numbers helps you take control of your health and your life. These key numbers help you assess your risk for serious illnesses, such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.  

Unfortunately, many of us are uninformed about our health numbers and why they are so important. A recent study by Cleveland Clinic shows that many Americans worry about dying of heart disease, but are unaware of their basic risk levels. For example, nearly half (46%) of those surveyed knew their bank account balance, while just 18% could state their body mass index and only 38% knew their blood pressure.

Ah, team building exercises. Some either love them, or run at the mention of them. While team building activities can be excellent for fostering a sense of unity and comradery in the workplace, they can also be the cause of some extensive eye rolls. This is because a lotof us have experienced a corny or downright awkward team building experience before.

However, when team building exercises are done and implemented properly, they are great for boosting employee wellness. Why? Team building encourages connections among employees. Creating a network of social support can lead to a more resilient work environment by helping employees recognize the power of being on a team and working together.