Improving diet quality at home is a major health marketing strategy. The Healthy Foods programme offers up to an impressive 25% discount on select fruit and vegetable items to more than 260,000 families across South Africa. This article will take you through what to look for and how to get the best deals. So let’s get started.
In terms of value for money, HEALTHYFOOD delivers in every area. It targets wholesome food with real nutrients at competitive prices. They offer a variety of healthy foods which are easy to prepare and great to taste. They have a wide range of healthy meals from starters to main courses, snacks and even desserts. The most appealing thing about healthy foods is that they are tasty and good value for money.
Apart from offering good value for money, another great thing about HEALTHYFOOD is that they provide support to families with dietary behaviors that are known to be linked to obesity. A recent study by Johns Hopkins University demonstrated that people who consume a lot of fast food are more likely to be obese. The Healthy Food Purchase program from HEALTHYFOOD takes this relationship further and applies it to dietary behaviors and weight control. People who make healthy foods choices are less likely to be obese, and those who are overweight can also reduce their risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and diabetes.
Healthier Food Purchasing is not just a price manipulation technique. By providing discounts to healthier foods, the company is also promoting healthier lifestyles through education about nutrition and encouraging family members to make healthier food choices. The Healthy Food Purchase is part of a larger strategy called “health promotion at schools”, which is a long term strategy to address obesity and school rankings that are affected by it. The price intervention strategy is designed to create awareness of the relationship between obesity and school rankings and will roll out additional changes across the board, including menus, vending machines and school vending machines.
Looking at the relationship between health promotion at schools and healthy food purchases can be difficult for various reasons. One of the largest issues is the use of grade labels to influence kids’ dietary behaviors. Many kids will pick up on the healthy food choices provided by parents, but they may not see the actual label and make the connection between the grade on the label and the nutrient content of the food. This is where HEALTHYFOOD’s multivariate analysis can help.
For example, parents can provide their children with a daily serving of fruit and two servings of vegetables and two servings of grains in the evening. When these servings are translated into HRA food units, which are designed to measure total dietary calories, the percentage of calories from saturated fat, sodium and sugar comes out as six hundred and twenty-three. This provides parents with an objective way to compare their daily intake of fruits and vegetables against those recommended on the Healthy Food Picture website to ensure that the recommended daily allowance of fruits and vegetables is being met. Knowing which foods provide the most nutritional value for a given set of demographic and dietary characteristics will enable parents and schools to work together to provide the most beneficial support to their students.