Learning Outcomes
Discover practical nutrition strategies designed specifically for people working shifts. This webinar explores how working outside conventional daytime hours can affect eating patterns, energy and wellbeing, and how food choices and meal timing can be adapted to better support the demands of shift work.
What is it?
Power Up Your Shift is a practical, evidence-based webinar focusing on the particular nutrition challenges faced by shift workers.
The session explores the impact of shift working on health and everyday eating habits, the relationship between meal timing and our natural circadian rhythms, and practical strategies for eating well when working early, late or overnight shifts.
Attendees will also learn how to choose foods and structure meals and snacks to better support energy, concentration and overall wellbeing throughout their shift.
How long is it?
60 minutes (45min + 15min Q&A)
How is it hosted?
This session can be delivered either:
- In-person (at your office or chosen venue)
- Online as a live talk
It is highly interactive in both formats, using Slido to engage participants throughout.
What’s included:
In this webinar we look at how to maximise nutrition for shift workers, including:
- Impact of shift work on health
- The challenges
- Nutrition strategies
- Meal timing and circadian rhythms
- Optimum foods for shift workers
What attendees will gain
- A better understanding of how shift work can influence eating patterns and wellbeing.
- Greater awareness of the relationship between meal timing and circadian rhythms.
- Practical strategies for planning meals around different shift patterns.
- Guidance on choosing foods that support sustained energy during a shift.
- Ideas for appropriate meals and snacks when working early, late or overnight.
- Strategies to help avoid relying heavily on convenience foods and quick-energy choices.
- Practical approaches that can be adapted to individual working patterns and routines.
- Greater confidence making nutritious choices when conventional meal times are not practical.
Ideal organisations
- Shift-based workforces: including employees working early, late, overnight or rotating shifts.
- Healthcare and emergency services: where long or irregular working hours can make regular eating patterns challenging.
- Manufacturing, logistics and transport teams: where shift patterns are an established part of working life.
- Hospitality and other 24-hour operations: helping employees manage nutrition around unconventional working hours.
- Workplace wellbeing programmes: particularly where generic healthy eating advice may not reflect the realities of employees’ working patterns.
Why it matters in the workplace
- Mental wellbeing affects working life: anxiety and stress can influence concentration, energy, sleep and day-to-day wellbeing.
- Nutrition is one part of the picture: food cannot replace appropriate mental health support, but everyday dietary habits can form part of a broader wellbeing approach.
- Practical self-care: understanding the food–mood relationship gives employees additional tools to consider within their own wellbeing routines.
- Energy and concentration: eating patterns that support stable energy levels may also help employees manage demanding working days.
- Whole-person wellbeing: the session complements workplace initiatives around mental health, sleep, resilience, physical activity and stress management.
- Evidence-based education: it helps employees navigate an area where there is considerable conflicting and sometimes misleading information online.
Important notice:
- The information in this webinar is for educational purposes and should not replace medical advice.
- The information is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition.
- If you have a diagnosed medical condition, you should consult a doctor before making any major changes to your diet, and;
- Some supplements may interact with medications and you should check with your GP before commencing any supplement programme.
Expert Speaker
Anjanette Fraser
MSc Nutritional Medicine, University of Surrey.
Anjanette’s first degree was Business Studies, then followed a career in Corporate Finance (Mergers & Acquisitions) at PricewaterhouseCoopers London. In 2001 a new chapter began with a move to Australia to study nutrition.
Upon qualification in 2005 Anjanette returned to the UK and created The Natural Alternative Health & Wellbeing Ltd, delivering wellbeing and nutrition content to workplaces.
In 2023 Anjanette obtained an MSc in Nutritional Medicine from Surrey University.