The Productivity Diet. What To Eat To Improve Your Daily Output.
It’s a scientific fact that what you eat can have a direct impact on your performance and productivity. Knowing what to feed your body so that your mind will perform optimally is therefore critical to success. The concept in itself is neither new nor revolutionary but the ability to actually carry it out still continues to elude so many of us. We know what we should be doing but we simply don’t!
At the end of the day, it’s as simple as practising proper nutrition but all too often that goes straight out of the window the minute we step through those rotating doors at work.
As a business owner, doesn’t it, therefore, make commercial sense to ensure your employees are practising good nutrition? What if you could help them out by installing a healthy vending machine at your location? Well, you can do precisely that thanks to The Jar - Healthy Vending by hiring one of our healthy vending machines stocked with bountiful nutritious food options for breakfast, lunch and that proverbial afternoon snack! Healthier staff are happier staff and happier staff are more productive ones. We don’t know about you but that definitely sounds like a win-win situation to us!
Promoting the productivity diet.
When it comes to the link between our bodies and our brains, nutrition and optimal nourishment go hand in hand. It’s not just about what we eat either. It’s also about when we eat.
To be at their most productive, our brains require 25 grams of glucose to be circulating in our bloodstream. To put that into perspective, that’s one banana, not one packet of M&M’s!
Snacking on anything with more glucose than this can cause a blood sugar spike which is going to be followed by a very unproductive low energy crash. Making intelligent decisions about what to snack so that you can achieve more in a day is essential. It will help you and those employees retain their energy and productivity levels in the workplace.
Make intelligent decisions about what you feed your body.
According to research from the Health Enhancement Research Organisation:
Employees who eat healthily all day long perform 25% better at work
Employees who eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetates a minimum of 4 times per week are 20% more productive in the workplace
Employees with a healthy weight, who eat healthily and exercise regularly take 27% less time off work through sickness
It’s also a super interesting fact that while our brains only take up a small 2% of our overall body weight, they use 20% of all our daily calories. So if you weren’t convinced before of the vital link between our body and our brain, you should be now!
Isn’t it time that you did both yourself and your workforce a big favour by hiring one of the Jar healthy office vending machines?