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If someone purchased drinks
or snacks in the cafeteria or vending machines around
Saint
Anne's Hospital starting
in December 2011, they
started to see a few changes. Using a stoplight theme, this initiative
is heightening awareness of healthy beverage options and the benefits of
making choices that help decrease caloric and sugar intake. Some of
these approaches include an increase in the number of healthy beverage
(and snack) products stocked in vending machines and cafeteria soda
fountain/beverage coolers. The initiative also includes labeling of
healthy beverage products according to recommended intake (green =
drink frequently; yellow = drink occasionally; red = drink
rarely or not at all) as well as on-site education sessions facilitated
by hospital registered dietitians and employees who can speak to the
health benefits of reducing intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and
snacks. The Hospital plans
to provide other ways to encourage
healthier behaviors, part of the Hospital's new employee wellness
program, following the results of an employee survey. Click
here for the Herald News article.
Click here for a copy of the Hospital's special wellness edition of Commitment.
For more information about the project, contact the Saint Anne’s Public
Relations office at 508-235-5056.
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| (Top row, left and right) Posters advising employees and patients using the Hospital cafeteria suggest that they consider choosing a beverage that is lower in sugar marked by green yellow and red dots. The suggestions appear to be working as most of the healthier green dotted beverages were taken at the time of the photo. (Top row, center) Dietitians Vinita Chaudhry and Nicolette Sneddon are joined for a group photo by Clinical Nutrition Manager Marin Woods and Food and Nutrition Director John McCall. (Middle row, left and right) Phlebotomist Jody Gosselin and Specimen Processor Melissa Dubois chat in front of the soda machine which is stocked entirely by sugar-free beverages. (Bottom row, left) Food and Nutrition Director John McCall looks over the healthier choices of snacks in the vending machine. (Bottom row, center) Registered dietitian Autumn Levesque, John McCall and Marin Woods stand behind a display of the sugar content of common beverages in the cafeteria during December, 2011. (Bottom row, right) Marin stands in from of the nutrition information displayed on the cafeteria wall. | ||