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Companies are considered ideal settings for the health promotion of adults: Around 45 million people in Germany are employed and therefore have access to workplace health promotion services. In addition to the promotion of mental health, the promotion of physical activity and the prevention of addiction, health-promoting nutrition or catering plays an important role in maintaining and promoting the health and performance of employees. This reference book offers nutritionists who want to qualify in the field of workplace health promotion a comprehensive and up-to-date insight into the following topics: Basics of occupational health management and workplace health promotion Ways to increase the nutritional literacy of managers and employees in the company Design options for company catering Good practice examples for catering or nutrition education, e.g. in production companies, in daycare centres or in the care sector.

The editors Prof. Dr. Annegret Flothow teaches as a psychologist in the Department of Ecotrophology at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). As part of her work for health insurance companies and employers' liability insurance associations, she has gained extensive experience in workplace health promotion. Since 2016, Prof. Flothow has been involved as head of the VDOE working group on WHP/BGM and in VDOE continuing education. As an ecotrophologist and gastronomy business economist, Dr. Silke Lichtenstein accompanies companies in the realignment of their food concepts, in legal issues and certification according to the DGE quality standards. At the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Hohenheim, she taught the implementation of WHP in the context of company catering. Since 2014, she has been involved in the board of the VDOE e. V. As an ecotrophologist, Almut Feller has extensive, long-standing experience in the design and implementation of workplace health promotion programmes. Since 2004, she has been involved with the VDOE e.V. in the areas of health promotion, sustainability, lifelong learning and further education, among other things, and has been deputy head of the VDOE working group on WHP/BGM since 2016. New

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