Mindfuel

Dietary guidance to boost energy, productivity and mental wellbeing

Run by Registered Nutritional Therapist, Kelly Avery (BSc, MSc, mBANT)

Corporate and community dietary support

We know you want the best for your team, and we are committed to making this happen.

Mindfuel will provide your corporate or community teams with expert-led yet practical dietary support to:

• Bolster energy and
  
• Increase productivity
• Improve stress resilience
• Enhance mental wellbeing

And supporting your team to feel healthier and happier will of course reap huge rewards for your organisation.

Observational studies have found that:

• Diets composed of a high consumption of fruit and veg, regular consumption of wholegrains and fish and moderate consumption of unprocessed red meat (i.e. Mediterranean diets) are associated with better mental health and reduced likelihood of developing symptoms of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression (reference), plus lower perceived stress (reference).

Experimental studies have demonstrated that:

• Amongst patients with depression, just 12 weeks of adhering to a Mediterranean diet complete with fish oil can improve quality of life and reduce depressive symptoms (reference).

• Increasing fruit and veg consumption from none or very little to around 3 or 4 portions per day can improve vitality and motivation in just 14 days (reference), and swapping one's daily snack of crisps or chocolate/sweets for a piece of fruit can reduce anxiety and fatigue in as little as 10 days (reference).

• In patients with severe depression, consuming 25ml of extra virgin olive oil per day can reduce depressive symptoms (reference).

• Consuming a high glycemic load diet (i.e. white carbs and sweet foods) can lead to depressive symptoms, mood disturbances, and fatigue whereas a low glycemic load diet is not associated with these symptoms (reference).

• Psychobiotic diets (those high in prebiotic and fermented foods) can reduce feelings of perceived stress (reference).
  

The services we provide

Each of our services can support your team to improve their energy and productivity, stress resilience and emotional wellbeing. Services can be delivered in isolation or combined into a more comprehensive package.

live presentations

Our engaging and interactive presentations will arm your team with well-researched yet practical advice so they can make meaningful change to their diets and wellbeing. Our specialist topics are: 'Using diet to promote day-long energy and productivity'; Using diet to increase resilience to stress'; and 'Using diet to enhance emotional wellbeing'.

Lunch and learns

We will be on hand to host fun yet informative sessions over lunch time where your team can drop in and have their questions answered about how they can tweak their diets to improve their wellbeing, whilst also sampling some delicious foods proven to support these areas of health.

monthly content

Our clearly written and easy to implement information and advice will enable your team to embed a healthy diet into their daily lifestyles. Provided content can be used in your email, newsletters and online employee portals.

Half/full-

day

events

We will give your team the opportunity to delve more deeply into the topics of diet and energy and productivity, stress resilience and emotional wellbeing by hosting events that combine presentations, Q&As, food sampling, recipes and other useful resources.

annual subscription service

This service is intended to serve as an economical one-stop shop of wellbeing provision to truly transform the health of your team and your organisation's performance. In addition to monthly presentations on our core topics, we will also host additional quarterly presentations on topical areas of interest such as the menopause and immunity. We will also provide quarterly half/full day events and monthly content (including meal plans). In addition, your team will have access to a portal of articles, pre-recorded webinars, recipes and other resources on our key topics.

Why does your workforce need wellbeing support?

To counter fatigue

A survey conduced by the Institute of Employment Studies on the sustained effects of working from home found that over 40% of respondents experienced fatigue

To combat stress

A Champions' Workplace Health Report revealed that 76% of employees suffered with moderate-to-high or high levels of stress

To prevent burnout

A staggering 81% of employees reported burnout in a survey conducted by Ceridian Health

To protect mental health

Champion Health discovered that 60% of employees feel anxious, 56% experience low mood, and one quarter meet criteria for ‘clinically relevant symptoms’ of anxiety and depression

What benefits will workplace wellbeing bring to your business?

Addressing issues such as staff fatigue, burnout and poor mental wellbeing will not only help support the individual and boost team morale, but also improve productivity, reduce presenteeism and absenteeism, and increase talent retention.

Improved productivity

Reduced presenteeism and absenteeism

Increased talent retention

Westfield found that 16 million employees plan to change jobs, at a cost of £48.2bn to UK businesses

HSE report that an estimated 17 million workdays were lost during 2021-22 in the UK due to stress, anxiety, and depression

Research by Deloitte discovered that the estimated annual costs of absenteeism, presenteeism and labour turnover to UK companies was between £53bn–56bn in 2020-21

The same research by Deloitte calculated that the average return is £5.30 for every £1 spent on workplace mental health interventions in 2020-21

The same Westfield report found that over a third (35%) of employees would consider staying put in their current jobs if their employer offered more wellbeing support

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