ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of unpaid credit card bills. This year it fell on [...]
LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]
A BRAND NEW campaign exposing the hidden nasties in everyday foods and helping people become food smart has been launched by the Department of Health. The campaign, which comes on the back of new research showing that UK consumers still have limited knowledge about [...]
THE GOVERNMENT has published its annual Family Food survey, which campaigners say shows worrying trends in terms of nutrition. The survey provides statistics on food purchases by type of food and also estimates of nutrient content. Most concerning is the decline in purchases of fruit [...]
A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever Health & Vitality Honours a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice. [...]
ORGANISATIONS FROM across the foodservice supply chain form The Roll of Honour for the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours scheme announced today. Caterers from the private and public sectors, manufacturers and suppliers – both global and niche – and representatives from the take out and independent hospitality [...]
AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them? Albert Einstein once said that the devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. [...]
COMPANIES ARE beginning to understand and embrace the extent to which a healthy and content workforce can help to build a healthy, profitable business. As a result, health, wellbeing and nutrition programmes are increasingly being implemented within the corporate culture. While employees can of course bring [...]
Hippocrates: Organisations are what they eat
By footprint on November 1, 2012
Published in: Comment, Health and Vitality and tagged Acquire Services, Amanda Ursell, Brakes, CH&Co, Health & Vitality Honours, inoocent, Lord's, Nestle Professional, Sodexo.
AS WE enter the last week for submissions of the inaugural Health & Vitality Honours 2013, Amanda Ursell enlightens us about the importance of creating a platform for excellence. Napoleon, said to be one of the greatest military commanders of all time, is often quoted as having said that an army marches on its [...]