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Best Green Superfoods

As a decision maker in your organization, you want to influence healthy lifestyles in the office. One way you can do that is by having healthy foods on hand in breakrooms and cafeterias for your employees to eat throughout the day. With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, Sterling Wellness Solutions is here to highlight some of the best green superfoods that inspire a healthy team.

Avocados

Avocados have many health benefits designed to keep you and your team healthy. This green superfood helps to lower LDL cholesterol, which is considered the “bad” cholesterol. Avocados also contain antioxidants that improve eye health and may help decrease you and your team’s chances of developing eye problems down the road.

Brussels Sprouts

Brussels sprouts are becoming more popular with people and for good reasons. This green superfood helps control blood pressure because of the potassium found in the vegetable. Eat Brussels sprouts also provides essential vitamins that your body needs in order to function and stay healthy, and success begins with a healthy team.

Spinach

When it comes to bases for a salad, this green superfood is one of your best options. In fact, many popular salad bases are green superfoods. When it comes to spinach, it has a lot of potassium and can help to lower blood sugar. And for people with diabetes, spinach helps keep blood sugar levels in line, which makes managing chronic diseases easier on your team members.

Green Tea

If you’re looking for healthy beverages to have around the office, water is always a great choice. But if you’re looking for something outside of water to have in the office, green tea is another superfood packed with health benefits. Drinking green tea in addition to a healthy diet and regular exercise helps many people lose weight. Green tea also helps to improve insulin resistance in people with type 2 diabetes.

Kiwi

Some fruits also count as green superfoods! Kiwis contain serotonin, which is a brain chemical that helps determine a good night’s sleep. When you eat more kiwis, you may find you sleep better. By offering kiwis as a snack in the workplace, you might be able have employees turn up the next day feeling refreshed after a fitful night of sleep.

Green Apples

Green apples are great as an individual snack or on top of a salad. This green superfood helps to lower blood sugar, which makes it a great snack to have after a meal. And, if you choose to have Granny Smith apples on hand, they provide a tart taste that makes it a great snack.

Success begins with a healthy team. At Sterling Wellness Solutions, we want to help you incorporate many different healthy strategies into your organization to have a successful, healthy team. By having healthy foods, especially the best green superfoods, available to eat in your office, you show your team that you take health seriously. If you’re interested in learning more about how to influence a healthy team and build a culture based on health and wellness, contact us today.