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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

January 07, 2021

5 Practices for 2021

We've all heard the expression that hindsight is 2020, but have you ever thought about what this saying is well...saying? Hindsight is literally the understanding of something after it's occurred, and usually the inference is that the "something" was not understood while it was happening. So looking at the saying this way makes it super relevant for me...I FOR SURE feel like I didn't know what the heck was going on in 2020. So, YAY! 2021! Everything is gonna be smooth sailing, right??? Well. Um.

January 07, 2021

How I Indulge Myself Without Food

Hey everyone, it's Karen here. Did you know that if you search the word "indulge" in Google images, about 90% of your results will have pictures of food?!?! Sure, there might be a random spa picture mixed in there, but it seems clear to me that the word "indulge" is synonymous with food in our culture. We understand that it's a common practice for many to self-indulge with food as a way to feel good, but hear us out: its effects are temporary and the long-term effects of using food to feel good can have consequences!

December 08, 2020

Save your basil with pesto

As summer winds down, I start strategizing ways to preserve my warm-weather goodies for the colder months to come. I wish you could smell my kitchen in the summer. Fresh basil is, to me, one of the joys of summer. Every year I prolong that joy by making and freezing large batches of pesto to eat through the colder months.

December 08, 2020

Make a week’s worth of lunches with Burrito Bowl Mason Jar Salads

Looking for a little shake-up in your lunch routine? These salads could be the answer. The ingredient quantities listed below will make five pint-jar-sized salads. When you’re ready to eat, shake them to distribute the dressing, or turn them over into a bowl – this is my preferred method, since the dressing more easily distributes over the salad. Enjoy!