For our clients, we want to coach them to be healthier, and doing that without latching onto a new fad to get excited about and breathlessly follow around for a while.
For example, this article tells us that the Nordic diet can improve your X, your Y, and especially your Z. You do this by eating their specific foods in their way.
But honestly, many cultural diets from many regions of the world leave their people healthier in the process. Given this diversity, how do we apply their success for our employees in a way that they can actually use.
To do that, we have to steer them away from molecule micromanagement, especially as it pertains to this or that specialty diet regime.
The better and more effective approach for them is to focus on principles. You can’t truly apply a Mediterranean approach, or Nordic, or Japanese, or [fill in the blank] unless you live there, within their cultural context.
So focus on the principles that all of these approaches have in common:
- eat real food
- do that in control
- move each day doing something you enjoy
- hang with your friends and family
- work to live, not the other way around
