What you need to know
Make your mission good nutrition. Nutrition is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, strengthening your immune system and reducing your chances of developing diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Eating well goes beyond just calories and grams of fat, protein, and carbohydrates in food. When you eat well, your energy level increases, you feel healthier and stronger, and you handle stress better.
With this Healthy Me 2021 program, we can help with weight loss and improved gut health, which helps balance your immune system. We can also help you examine your relationship with food and help you eat more mindfully.
What’s Happening This Month
Every month we offer educational classes and events, including monthly NutriChats.
Check the HR Events Calendar for details about the classes and events offered this month. Use the filter Preventive Health: Eat Well to make your search easier.
Ready to make a plan and make a change? Join one of our nutrition health action plans.
Resources and Supporting Activities
- Request a one-on-one nutrition consult – in person or via Skype. Call 505-284-4700 to schedule an appointment.
- Virgin Pulse – track your activity and healthy habits
- MyFitnessPal – track your food
- Foodsmart – recipes (To access Foodsmart from your Virgin Pulse account, select Foodsmart on the Programs page. On the login page, enter Sandia Health Plan and sign in using your Virgin Pulse username and password.)
- HR Video Library
- Electrolytes – What You Need to Know (PDF)
- Game: Can You Name These Tree Nuts & Seeds? (PDF)
- Game: Can You Name These Legumes? (PDF)
- Herbs & Spices Reasons to Season (PDF)
- Keeping It Real: Breakfast on The Go (PDF)
- Fishing for Better Mental Health (PDF)
- Nuts, Seeds & Legumes: Plant-Based Protein (PDF)
- Real Food Smoothies (PDF)
- The Smartest Diet for Your Brain (PDF)
- Mindful Eating Questionnaire (PDF)
- Gut Glucose Connection (PowerPoint presentation)
- Phytonutrient Spectrum Checklist (PDF)
- Healthy Food Connection with Holiday Favorites (PDF)
- 5 Tips to Boost Your Brain Health (PDF)
- Connection to Food During the Holiday Season (PowerPoint presentation)
- Mindful Eating Spotlight (PDF)
- CA Lean in ’19 News: Elimination Diets (PDF)
Contact Employee Health Services
Preventive Health Services (New Mexico)
505-284-4700, Option 1 (phone lines open at 7 a.m.)
MO307 (behind Buildings 831 and 832)
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT, Monday through Friday
Preventive Health Services (California)
925-294-3500
Building 925 and MO32/Life Design Center
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday
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