Launch of Dietary Seminars for Corporate Clients to Support Retention and Productivity of New Employees - Supporting Corporate Health Management by Improving Dietary Habits of Young Adults

Smile meal Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Mayumi Atsumi) has begun offering "Diet and Lifestyle Seminars" targeting new employees as part of its corporate health management support.

In recent years, companies have been placing significant emphasis on supporting the health management and lifestyle habits of young employees from the perspective of talent retention and productivity improvement. In particular, new employees are at a stage where their living environment changes significantly due to employment, making it a time when dietary irregularities and lifestyle changes are prone to occur.

To support the creation of healthy lifestyle habits for new employees, Smile meal offers practical, diet-themed seminars for corporations.

■ Health Issues and Dietary Habits of Young Adults
Irregular dietary habits and nutritional imbalances are becoming a problem among the younger generation.

According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Reiwa 6 National Health and Nutrition Survey," approximately 30% of men in their 20s and 30s skip breakfast. Furthermore, due to an increase in dining out and the use of convenience stores, a lack of vegetables and nutritional imbalances have also been pointed out.

In addition, the proportion of "underweight (BMI under 18.5)" among young women is high at approximately 20%, which is a high level even among developed countries. Excessive thinness during youth is pointed out to be related to future health risks such as osteoporosis, menstrual irregularities, and an increase in low-birth-weight infants.

Dietary habits during one's younger years greatly influence subsequent health conditions. Acquiring healthy dietary habits at the timing of becoming a new employee leads not only to maintaining health in the future but also to corporate talent development and productivity improvement.

Reference: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare "Reiwa 6 National Health and Nutrition Survey"
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_66279.html

■ Supporting the Dietary Life of New Employees Starting to Live Alone
Many new employees start living alone when they begin working.
As the dietary environment previously prepared at home changes, issues frequently arise such as:

- Decreased frequency of meals
- A diet centered around dining out and convenience stores
- Unbalanced nutrition

In this seminar, themed around dietary habits that even busy new employees can easily practice, registered dietitians provide easy-to-understand explanations on contents useful for real life, such as:

- Basic concepts of nutritional balance
- How to choose meals at convenience stores and when dining out
- The relationship between breakfast and daily rhythm
- Simple dietary contrivances to prepare meals

■ Corresponding to Practical Seminars and Cooking Classes
Smile meal offers not only lecture-style seminars but also practical programs that lead to action.

For example, it is possible to implement programs to learn dietary habits through experiences, such as:

- Cooking classes (cooking seminars)
- Tasting-type seminars (dietary seminars where you learn while eating)
- Visualization through dietary habit questionnaires
- Combination with health measurement events

By deepening understanding through actual experiences such as eating and cooking, it is characterized by easily leading to behavioral changes in daily life.

■ Towards the Retention and Performance Improvement of New Employees
Dietary habits and daily rhythms affect daily physical condition and concentration.
A regular diet is an important factor that leads to maintaining condition and improving performance.

By raising health awareness at an early stage for new employees, there are significant advantages from the perspective of talent development, such as:

- Improvement of physical condition management ability
- Formation of basic lifestyle habits for working
- Long-term health maintenance

■ Available Both In-Person and Online
This seminar is available not only in-person but also online or as video content.

It can be implemented in a format that is easy to introduce as new employee training, health training, or wellbeing initiatives for companies. Additionally, by combining it with initiatives such as health measurement events and nutrition consultation sessions, it can be deployed as a highly effective corporate health management program.

Corporate representatives looking for health training or dietary seminars for new employees are encouraged to contact Smile meal Co., Ltd.

■ About Smile meal Co., Ltd.
Smile meal Co., Ltd. is a team of food professionals centered around registered dietitians, with the mission of "creating deliciousness, smiles, and health through food, and contributing to society."

Centering on health-focused recipe development, product development, and catering businesses, they provide a one-stop service covering everything up to food photography and video production. They also develop corporate health management support services utilizing food as an entry point, implementing health management consulting, dietary and nutrition seminars, health measurement events, nutrition consultation sessions, and cooking classes. They implement highly effective food initiatives that contribute to improving employee wellbeing and productivity.

■ Company Profile
Company Name: Smile meal Co., Ltd.
Location: 3F MC Suidobashi Building, 2-1-17 Kanda Misakicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Representative Director Mayumi Atsumi
Established: November 2016

Business Description:
- Corporate Health Management Support (Corporate health management consulting utilizing food, health seminars, health equipment measurement events, nutrition consultation sessions, cooking classes, etc.)
- Recipe development, Product development
- Food photography, Video production
- Bento / Catering business
- Event / Media appearances
- Producing food-related events
- Column writing
- Nutritional value calculation, Advice
- Kitchen studio rental, etc.

Official HP: https://www.smile-meal.com/

■ Contact Information
Mail: kenko@smile-meal.com
Contact: Hikaru Sakamoto (Registered Dietitian / Health Management Expert Advisor)