Your Health Your Way and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005:
The Dietary Guidelines 2005 are intended to help healthy Americans make smart choices about food and activity so they can lead healthier lives. The guidelines are based in science and designed people over the age of two.
Sodexo developed Your Health Your Way to make healthy eating easy simple and delicious. Our restaurant quality meals meet credible nutritional guidelines and readily adapt to your dining habits. Nutrition and health education is also provided to help you make informed choices. Your Health Your Way makes it easy to follow the new guidelines. This chart below tells you how.
| Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 | How Your Health Your Way makes it easy to follow the new guidelines |
| Adequate nutrients within calorie needs | All Your Health Your Way meals are packed with vitamins and minerals because we use cooking techniques that bring out flavor and preserve nutrients. Our signs provide you all the nutrition information you need to make a healthy choice. This web site's nutrition calculator also provides nutrition facts for our meals. |
| Weight management | Your Health Your Way meals are calorie controlled to less than 600 calories with many containing less. Our signs tell you all the nutrition information about the featured meal so you know its exact caloric content. Our web site provides healthy recipes so you can prepare Your Health Your Way meals at home. |
| Physical activity | Your Health Your Way table tents, FLAVOR magazines and this web site provide tips for being more active. |
| Food groups to encourage | Fruits and vegetables Your Health Your Way meals are made with wholesome quality ingredients like fruits and vegetables. Our sides include Orange and Jicama Salad, Mashed Cauliflower and Southwestern Slaw. Our health certified to go stations offer fruits and veggies as snacks. Our Ultimate deli features fresh and grilled veggie toppings and a healthy combo consisting of carrot and celery sticks with fat free ranch dip and bottled water. Whole grains Our health certified breakfasts and grills feature whole grain breads. Our Ultimate deli features whole grain rolls and breads. Our Watching Your Carbs? Program focuses on healthy sources of carbohydrates in moderation such as legumes, whole grains, fruits and veggies. Fat free and low fat dairy Our Your Health Your Way certified to go program offers low fat milk and yogurt. Look for low fat cheeses such as part skim mozzarella, low fat cheddar and low fat Swiss at our Ultimate deli. |
| Fats | Our chefs have replaced the flavor of lots of fat by using fresh herbs, robust peppers, savory spices and cooling citrus ingredients. All Your Health Your Way meals contain less than 30% of calories from fat, less than 3 grams saturated fat and less than 100 mg cholesterol. Our signage tells you the nutrition information of each featured meal. Many of our meals meet criteria for low fat such as the Shredded Chicken Barbecue Sandwich with California Slaw and Garden Salad. |
| Carbohydrates | We focus on healthy carbohydrates such as whole grain breads and rolls, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Herb Grilled Salmon with Southwest White Bean Stew and Steamed Asparagus and Portobello Penne with Hearts of Romaine and Fresh Vegetables are just two examples. Our Your Health Your Way, On the Go program for vending promotes waters and flavored waters without sugar, reduced calorie beverages and sugar free beverages as well as low fat dairy beverages. |
| Sodium and Potassium | Chefs have replaced the flavor of salt with fresh herbs and robust spices. Our use of fruits and veggies pumps up the potassium of our meals. All Your Health Your Way meals have less than 1000 mg of sodium. Our signage shows exactly the amount of sodium and potassium in featured meals. |
| Food safety | The cornerstone of Sodexo's overall food safety program is a comprehensive food safety and self-inspection program called HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point). The HACCP program is a proactive, systematic approach for maintaining the safety of food products from the time they are delivered to us, until they are served to you. |