Food isn’t just fuel, and nutrition is more than calculating calories and grams of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The food you eat doesn’t just nourish your body, it can also nourish your soul, so understanding how and why you eat is just as important as what you eat. By developing a connection to food and understanding your nutritional choices, you are in a better position to make positive changes that more effectively nourish your body while also soothing your soul.
When you eat well, your energy level increases, you feel healthier and stronger, and you handle stress better. Not to mention, good nutrition strengthens your immune system and reduces your chances of developing diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
Coaching Help If You Need It
Sandia’s health coaches can help you improve your nutritional intake and eating habits, including food quality, meal planning and prepping, mindful eating, food connection, and more.
Some areas on which you can focus include:
- Weight management
- Improving healthy body composition
- Improving relationship with food
- Improving blood pressure and cardiovascular health
- Improving blood sugar regulation and diabetes
- Improving gut health
- Sports nutrition
- Food quality
- Meal planning and prepping
- Hormonal support
- Pregnancy and postpartum
Our registered dietitians can answer questions and provide guidance on a variety of nutritional topics, including meal planning and preparation, managing dietary restrictions, using diet to manage conditions, and more. Call Employee Health & Wellbeing (numbers below) to request a nutrition appointment.
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 Health: Nutrition filter to make your search easier.
Resources and Supporting Activities
- Health on the Go – Invite a health educator to one of your existing meetings or schedule a special session to bring employees together for a health activity or presentation of your choice.
- Cafe Services and Nutrition – Through our food service vendors, Sandia offers a variety of onsite cafeterias, snack shops, vending machines, and healthy eating options in both California and New Mexico.
- Wellworks For You – track your activity and healthy habits
- MyFitnessPal – track your food
- Educational Resources – handouts, recipes, and more
- Preventive Health’s seasonal cookbook
- Nourish Videos from the Digital Media Library – Browse our library of past fitness education classes under the Nourish category.
Contact Employee Health & Wellbeing
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/Fitness Hub
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT, Monday through Friday
Find Your Food Connection
Our registered dietitians can answer questions and provide guidance on a variety of nutritional topics, including meal planning and preparation, managing dietary restrictions, using diet to manage conditions, and more. Call HR Solutions to request a nutrition appointment. Contact the nutrition team at nutrition@sandia.gov.