Abstract
Healthcare workers often struggle with being able to complete healthy eating and exercise behaviors, and this can lead to issues like obesity and chronic illness. The focus of this chapter is on the healthy nutrition and exercise behaviors of healthcare workers, specifically workplace barriers encountered that hinder those behaviors. The major barrier categories discussed in this chapter are time and shiftwork issues, job demands/work stress, absence of healthy options, lack of health knowledge, the work environment, social barriers, and personal factors. Potential facilitators to health behavior and initiatives organizations can implement to improve the health of healthcare employees are also included.