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Improve your well-being through nutrition

Available in person, online, by phone or email Registered dietitians

Experienced dietitians work with you to find nutritional strategies that meet your needs.

Meetings held online Free EatWell membership

Learn about nutrition basics, sustainable changes and a supportive mindset.

A non-diet, evidence-based approach to eating Intuitive eating

Intuitive Eating helps you learn to trust your body’s internal signals to make food choices that work for you, without self-judgement or the external signals of diet culture and food rules.

Fresh food from local farms CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Voucher

Employees and retirees on a health plan choose either $100 or $200 vouchers toward the cost of a CSA share from one of our partner farms.

Lose weight, sleep better and more WondrHealth

Wondr is a weight loss program that is clinically proven to help you lose weight. We’ll teach you simple skills based on behavioral science, so you can enjoy your favorite foods and feel better than ever— at no cost to you. Employees, spouses, pre-65 retirees and their spouses enrolled in University of Kentucky health insurance are eligible to apply.

Lazy Dietitian: How to Embrace Healthy-ish Eating!

Karen Bryla McNees, our Lazy Dietitian, reveals her tips for creating simple, healthy-ish and tasty meals with minimal time and effort.

Check out the Lazy Dietitian full play list of demand videos here.

Topics include:

How to Spend Less Time and Money on Grocery Shopping
How to Make Your Kitchen Lazy Friendly
And more!

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News

April 16, 2024

Annual period for employees to convert temporary disability leave to vacation leave now available through April 30

The annual period for University of Kentucky employees to convert their temporary disability leave (TDL) to additional vacation leave (VL) is now available through April 30. Employees may request conversion of TDL hours to additional vacation leave through Employee Self Service in myUK. Employees should log into myUK, access Employee Self Service and select Working Time and Leave Requests.  

February 02, 2023

How to avoid losing your own identity when you are a caregiver

We all start our caregiving journey for different reasons. We each have our own story of how it came to be. Some come to caregiving out of a sense of love and devotion, some out of necessity and duty, and some because it is just the right thing to do. But no matter how you came to be a caregiver, it is only part of who you are. Over time, your stories and your loved one’s stories intertwine. You start to lose your sense of self.

November 16, 2021

Back to Nutritional Basics

As humans, we are quite good at overcomplicating things. I suppose a lot of this can be attributed to all the choices the modern world provides us. And that is surely a blessing. But when you’re at the grocery store, staring down an aisle of yogurt and trying to decide which one to buy, it is easy to forget that choices are nice. Do I get the one with higher protein? Do I look for less sugar? Greek or regular? It’s no wonder healthful eating feels impossible to many of us.

September 10, 2021

Together at the Table

It can be a real feat to get the people in your household to sit down together for meal. Everyone is on a different schedule, not everyone is hungry at the same time, and there are always distractions that seem to pop up. Here at the McNees house, we are no different. I do not have a magic dietitian wand that I get to wave to make these challenges go away.