Companies and Organisations should promote health in a holistic manner

• Employee wellness programme could be part of HR management. Shift the focus from employee health check-up to employee health maintenance. Incentives should be provided for health conscious employees.
• Encourage more employee interactions at the work place
• Suggestion boxes at worksites would enable the management to get context and culture specific strategies, which would be resource sensitive from various employees themselves (stake holders).
• Involvement of families for greater compliance and better implementation of health interventions is required.
• Motivation to employees to minimize the use of mechanized aids in day to day activities (e.g. lifts, intercoms, internet for internal communication) at worksites.
• Encourage group activities like team building exercises, sports etc.
• Ensure healthy environment in the workplace. If possible have open patches for vegetable plantation and promote rainwater harvesting with active employee participation and ownership.
• Active advocacy by the media is indispensable in promoting health at the worksite and health of the nation.

Measures for food product industry

• Type of fat/oil in the product should be healthy. Trans-fatty acids/vanaspati have tremendous harmful health effects. Biscuits, ready to eat noodles, breads and other local confectionaries, traditional halwais are the largest consumers of trans-fatty acids. A shift to a healthier fat is desirable by these industries.
• Misleading advertising or those with false claims should be given up.
• Responsible labelling, clear, large in regional languages with the help of pictorial representation is desirable.