Benefits | Nutrition Interventions

Health benefits for nutrition¹

Employee health benefits are part of an overall compensation package and affect an employee’s willingness to seek preventative services and clinical care.

Provide coverage for clinical nutrition counseling

• Provide intensive dietary counseling for adults with lipid disorders and other risk factors for cardiovascular and diet-related chronic diseases
• Counseling can be delivered in clinical settings by physicians, or specialists such as nutritionists or dieticians, and should include nutrition education and behavioral education such as self-monitoring, overcoming barriers to selecting a healthy diet, setting goals, shopping and food preparation, and social support

Lactation support program

• A basic lactation support program includes providing a breastfeeding employee time and a location where she can privately, comfortably and safely express milk during the workday. Health Benefits components include providing coverage for breastfeeding counseling (A U.S. Preventive Services Task Force B Recommendation)