Consulting
Corporate wellness programs control high health care costs, as well as improved productivity and morale amongst employees.
Learn how you can use DNA360 Wellness services to benefit your organization, business, medical office, or school.
Corporate Education & Wellness Consulting
(Available for local or virtual consultations)
If you’re looking to build employee morale and promote positivity, illness prevention, and a healthful lifestyle, a wellness program will be of great benefit for your employees.
Empower employees to make lifestyle changes through educational presentations and custom workplace programs. Evidence-based and enriching nutrition programming – reduces insurance premiums and sick days, prevents chronic disease, improves employee morale and workplace culture.
Informative and enjoyable presentations can be performed in-person or via live webinar with a Q&A session. Nutrition presentation topics can be customized!
Cooking demonstrations entertain and increase participants’ nutrition knowledge and skills in the kitchen
Grocery shopping can be overwhelming and confusing. If you have pre-diabetes, diabetes, overweight, celiac disease, food allergies or another any other medical conditions – a grocery store tour is a great way learn how to make healthy food choices for your specific needs.
Using Healthie, individual nutrition consultations will be provided which focuses on each client’s unique nutrition needs. Nutrition goals will be established as well as a schedule of weekly follow up consults for achieving those goals. Nutrition consults will focus on:
- Knowledge and education for specific dietary needs (such as blood sugar control, blood pressure control, weight loss etc.)
- Healthy habit review (fluids, fruit and vegetable intake, meal timing and more)
- Menu planning
- Grocery shopping
Initial consultations will be 60 minutes per employee. Follow up sessions will be to review set goals, determine progress and update goals, determine progress and update goals weekly with a 15–30-minute video check in.
Hire a RD professional for your next employee health fair! I provide an interactive nutrition education/information table based on a healthy topic of your choice with an option of providing live cooking demonstrations with food samples and recipes.
If your staff isn’t properly educated on allergens, it risks a customer having a life-threatening allergic reaction. Food allergy staff training helps to minimize the risk of exposure to customers as well as the risk of litigation against your restaurant or staff.
Food Allergy Management
Making restaurants allergen friendly is no longer a fad – it’s a serious business decision that dictates multifaceted process that spans from procurement, production, ordering, to serving.
In partnership with Food Allergy Research education (FARE) DNA360 Wellness will provide resources to help faculty and staff maintain a safe and healthy school environment.
- Appoint an allergen team to manage the initiative with at least one trained person on duty at all times
- Create policies and procedures for front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house staff for prepping, cooking, and serving food
- Menu analyzation to identify every ingredient to create allergen spec sheet.
- Create a Allergen-Free Zone with color-coded equipment, such as cutting boards and kinves, for allergen-friendly prep, cooking and service.
Menu Consulting For Food Service Establishments
DNA360 Wellness is pleased to offer nutrition consulting services for restaurants, hotels, spas, meal delivery companies, cafes, commercial kitchens, and food service sites.
Food is a competitive business, and restaurants stand out by offering what people want. Weight conscious consumers demand tasty, low-fat, low-carb, and low-calorie fare. Eco-conscious customers seek restaurants that promote social responsibility and sustainability and offer local, organic selections. Health-conscious clientele ask for nutrition and allergy information as well as options for special diets such as low sodium, vegan, gluten free, and oil free.
There is a tremendous pressure for restaurant establishments to accommodate guest demands for nutrition while dining out. Investing in a dietitian in order to build menus that offer contemporary nutrient-dense options, cater to dietary needs, and still honor chef-driven concepts allows organizations to fulfill and stay on step ahead of dynamic consumer demand landscape.
DNA360 Wellness would be happy to work with your establishment to yield menus that honor food for health and sensory pleasure. An innovative dietitian as a consultant can help your food establishment stay abreast of current nutrition/health and food trends which will impress your consumer and position your restaurant as unique, creative, and contemporary in your field.
Menu consultant entails:
- Menu creation/consulting – working alongside restaurant executives and chefs to align with the vision of the facility and harness nutrition goals
- Menu analysis (complete nutrient data analysis for all good/beverage items complete with generated labels)
- Creating allergy statements
- Ability to use dietitian’s likeness and written/video contributions to live on website or promotional materials to leverage as a marketing tool
DNA360 Wellness Corporate Approach
Identify pain points by locating the endemic problems in the organization with respect to nutrition
Tailor protocols by entering the nutrition seat team hatching dynamic programming for sustainable, customized, scales le and enjoyable nutrition change that honors your company’s size, demographic, culture, and specific needs/requests.
Stay agile by responding with flexibility to stay current and valuable to your company with programs that transcend time, management changes, and thousands of cookies that will no longer be in the office pantry.
School Nutrition Consulting
DNA360 Wellness brings nutrition education to your school in a meaningful, health enhancing, compassionate, considerate, and fun way. A nutrition program like this will be very good marketing, recruitment, and public leverage for your school and serve as the foundations for a legacy nutrition program to improve the health of your school’s community for years to come.
DNA360 Wellness provides a wide range of services to help schools establish and maintain nutritious meal programs and good dietary habits. With an eye for innovation and detail, we understand the importance of nutrition in supporting the academic growth of students through campus wide programs, dedicated to providing the highest quality services so that schools can focus on what they do best.
Nutrition Education
DNA360 Wellness believe in a holistic approach to nutrition. Nutrition affects students’ thinking skills, behavior, and health, all factors that impact academic performance. Rising obesity rates, elevated food insecurity, and the growing recognition that nutrition is critical to the healthy development of young students are all raising awareness of the need to improve school food programs, and to educate students and families on the importance of healthy eating.
- DNA360 Wellness customized nutrition programs provide students with exciting age-appropriate wellness information that promotes nutritious and healthy lifestyle. Encouraging students to “build a healthy plate” through incorporating a balance of nutrient-dense foods great for optimal health.
- Student modules are divided into younger elementary (grades k-2) and older elementary (grades 3-5). Middle and high school-appropriate content is available as well.
- Each younger student seminar (k-8) involves a hands-on activity that optimizes growth and development. Fostering confident attitudes in relationships with food and building a lifetime healthy relationship with food with a natural inclination towards nutrient-dense choices.
- Learning is ventured beyond the classrooms to reinforce healthy eating habits through grocery store tours and farmers market visit.
Menu Planning & Evaluation
Menus are planned and evaluated along the school café chef to develop health conscious menus, gluten and allergen friendly meal options, healthful kid meals, local procurement, organic, sustainable ingredients, and vegetarian/vegan fare.
Food Allergy Management
If you haven’t had a student with a food allergy in your school or classroom yet, odds are you soon will. For reasons that aren’t completely understood, the incidence of food allergies is increasing.
In partnership with Food Allergy Research education (FARE) DNA360 Wellness will provide resources to help faculty and staff maintain a safe and healthy school environment.
- Appoint an allergen team to manage the initiative with at least one trained person on duty at all times
- Create policies and procedures for front-of-the-house and back-of-the-house staff for prepping, cooking, and serving food
- Menu analyzation to identify every ingredient to create allergen spec sheet.
- Create a Allergen-Free Zone with color-coded equipment, such as cutting boards and kinves, for allergen-friendly prep, cooking and service.
- Dedicated separate gluten-free area, in addition to dedicated gluten-free lines in the dining hall applicable to your student food allergy population.
- Train and educate staff to work with students/faculty/staff who request accommodations for food allergies through fun, innovative, and interactive trainings
Sustainability
DNA360 Wellness will work with your school community to foster a sustainable school environment through:
- Reducing food waste
- Start or expand school garden and make virtual farm tours available to support education and healthy eating.