West Country chartered surveyors at Colliers take up the Eat in Colour challenge

West Country chartered surveyors at Colliers take up the Eat in Colour challenge

With UK business estimated to be losing 175 million sick days every year, Eat in Colour (EiC) has called on the country’s workforce and their bosses to take “The Bowl Not Biscuit Challenge”.

EiC wants Britons to enjoy an apple or a carrot instead of their morning biccie, and swap their usual afternoon tea-break snack for a tasty piece of fruit or veg in a bid to create healthier, happier, more energetic workers who spend fewer days on their sick beds.

Already, six major UK employers have signed up to the “Eat in Colour Charter” and sworn off chocolate bars in favour of fruit bowls and crudités. Bobbies from Nottinghamshire Constabulary, bakers at Ginsters, office staff at Barratt Homes, mechanics at ATS, surveyors at Colliers CRE, and B&Q staff are all Eating in Colour during working hours.

The EiC Charter outlines a few easy steps bosses can take to ensure that their employees understand the benefits of healthy eating and have access to fruit and vegetables, wherever they work in the business.

EiC chairman Anthony Levy said: “By providing a good, affordable selection of fruit and vegetables, encouraging employees to take their full snack and lunch breaks and promoting light exercise and team sporting activities, employers can help maintain a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed workforce, best equipped to survive the current financial downturn.

“Reaching for the fruit bowl rather than the biscuit barrel needn’t be hard labour, as top tips on Eating in Colour at work, a tool box full of recommendations and advice for employers are all downloadable from www.eatincolour.com.”

The super six were supplied with fresh fruit for the whole of May courtesy of the latest EiC campaign sponsor, Fruitful Office (www.fruitfuloffice.com). Fruitful Office is the UK’s original office fruit supplier, delivering fruit boxes to more than 225 companies and 13,000 employees in London and across the UK.

Levy said employees can play their part too. “It’s not always easy to enjoy a healthy diet when we are busy earning a crust, but whether it’s on the factory or shop floor, in the office or on the road, fruit and vegetables are the quick and easy route to healthy eating at work,” he said.

“Fruit and veg make ideal tea-break snacks and liven up a dreary lunchbox, so we can all make them part of our everyday routine. We can pop an apple or a banana in the briefcase, tool box or handbag,” he added.

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