Nestlé’s goal is to be recognised as the global leader in nutrition, health and wellness and we understand that our impact must be felt at the local level. Our initiatives are therefore aimed at helping consumers find the right balance of nutrition, good health, and wellness to attain a healthy state of being.

Nestlé realises that the road to having a healthy lifestyle is always easier if you have a trusted partner on that journey and, as such, we have created five simple and important steps to help you achieve that balance. These five steps are not quick fixes, but in fact, actions that you can do every day without any additional effort.

Nestlé’s high five steps are built around basic healthy lifestyle principles that health researchers globally encourage us to practise.

Step 1: Eat Healthy

This step helps you improve the quality of your meals by redirecting you to the basic concepts of variety and balance in meals. This ensures that each day you receive all the nutrients required to maintain optimum performance and to delay the threat of lifestyle-related diseases.

Step 2: Control Portions

This step focuses on the quantity of food that you consume at each meal. Research has found that our regular food portion sizes are much larger than the recommended ones. In addition, we have adopted habits such as “belly bust” syndrome or “I pay for it — I am not leaving it” attitudes, which is probably causing us to overeat, increase our waist circumference, and increase our risk for lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart diseases.

Step 3: Be Active

This is a call to action, to encourage you to lead a physically active lifestyle. We need to exercise for at least 30 minutes three to four times per week. Physical activities such as stretching and weight training are also important aspects of this step so that you can maintain strong bones and muscles to help proper posture and physical strength.

Step 4: Check Health

This step helps to prompt you to take the necessary health checks to know what is taking place inside your body. When last have you had a physical check-up by a doctor? We all know our shirt sizes, pants sizes or even our shoe sizes, but do you know your family health history, or even your own blood cholesterol or blood pressure levels or even your body mass index value? Or when last did you and your children visit the dentist? You need to remember that knowing is the first step to preventing and/or managing lifestyle-related diseases.

Step 5: Be Happy

This step reminds you to take the time to enjoy and appreciate life, to relax, combat stress and appreciate yourself, your family and friends. It is also about making time for me-time which you sometimes lose in your daily routine.

Other initiatives

Nestle’s Healthy Kids Programme

This is a nutrition education programme (part of the Healthy Kids Global Programme) designed to promote changes in the eating habits of students and by extension, teachers/tutors and to educate them about the nutritional values that contribute to a healthy lifestyle, thus helping to prevent malnutrition and obesity in children and adolescents.

Wellness Caravan

Through this mobile project we provide free nutritional consultations to different neighbourhoods and communities, educating them on healthy lifestyles, providing evaluation and nutritional counselling to thousands of persons, focusing on the five steps towards a healthier lifestyle.

Wellness Days

Through this initiative, Nestlé arranges in-store activities, health checks, consumer sampling and mini in-store and on-the-road surveys in order to teach the message of wellness to existing and potential consumers as well as to garner pertinent feedback from consumers regarding our products and services.

Nestlé Schools Wellness Fiesta

The objective of this initiative is to educate school-aged children, their teachers and the wider public about the importance of nutrition, health and wellness as part of a healthy lifestyle. It allows school-aged children to display their understanding of nutrition as well as providing opportunities for the participants to gain more knowledge on the subject in an interactive and exciting forum.