BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Eating healthy when dining out can feel overwhelming, but Ochsner’s Eat Fit program is putting a seal of approval on restaurant menus and inside hospital cafeterias so diners know what’s good for them before they order.
A small logo next to certain menu items at Ochsner cafeterias and participating Baton Rouge restaurants marks the Eat Fit seal, indicating the nutrition work has been done.
“Those items on the menu are the ones that you can feel confident choosing,” nutrition specialist Allie Foreman said. “And whenever you go to order, all the work has been done, and you can just feel confident that you’re putting something nutritious into your body.”
Program expands from restaurants to hospital facilities
Foreman said Eat Fit launched in New Orleans in 2013 and expanded to Baton Rouge around 2019. Ochsner has now brought the program inside its own facilities with a major incentive…