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.
Nourish Health Action Plan
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Our flexible health action plan program puts you in the driver’s seat and allows us to help you create a highly personalized plan to meet your individual health goals and tackle your personal obstacles. One size doesn’t fit all when it comes to change readiness, but every step towards better health counts, so we’ll meet you where you and work at your pace.
Join the Nourish HAP to 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
When you enroll in the Nourish HAP, you’re first step is to complete an intake assessment form to evaluate your current health and habits and help you determine the best areas to focus upon. Once you’ve submitted the intake, we will contact you to schedule an initial appointment with a health coach to define your goals and customize an action plan that includes available onsite and virtual resources and services.
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 coaching – 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.
- Virgin Pulse – track your activity and healthy habits
- MyFitnessPal – track your food
- Educational Resources – handouts, recipes, and more
- Preventive Health’s seasonal cookbook
- HR Video Library
- Electrolytes – What You Need to Know (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)
- 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)
- Foods that Feed Diversity (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
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.