Nutrition and its effect on Productivity at the Workplace

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2016 in the subject Biology - Diseases, Health, Nutrition, , language: English, abstract: This thesis explores the relationship between nutrition and productivity at the workplace and, to a lesser extent, lifestyle. Nutrition is essential for the body to sustain itself and enable its systems to work productively. As important as productivity is, it can be affected by things such as immunity, energy balance, sleep, and more which can be significantly assisted by nutrition.

The sections of wellness points described below can affect levels of productivity. The discussion takes place in this document on how diet can affect each point. The topics are Travel and Vacation and how to fight illness before leaving on vacation, combating stress with nutrition, concentration, focus on nutrition, anxiety, fighting disease, the immune system, energy highs and lows, sleep, food at work, meetings and emotional eating.

Methods used to gather information were conducted by searching various databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Google, and various medical internet sites. Included in the methods were people of the general healthy working population, mainly in the United States, and exclusions were those with terminal illnesses. The results for each point are in the document, and the discussion allows for the best actions to help productivity thrive at the workplace and personally.