• Professional health education staff
• Current health information
• Online health references
• Health education classes & programs
• Health & wellness product sales
• Blood pressure screening
• Community resources
• Video viewing, lending & sales
• Breast pump sales & rentals
• Body fat composition testing

Personalize a Program Online

HealthMedia Nourish® gives you personalized strategies for making smart and delicious food choices to increase energy, manage weight, and live a longer, healthier life. 

• Sign up for this service at www.kp.org/healthylifestyles .

Learn at Home

In the Kitchen with Carole: Eating Well for Your Health - Take a tour of your own kitchen to identify unhealthy foods and learn healthy options on the CD recorded by a Kaiser Permanente registered dietitian.

•  Available by calling Quality Books and Audio at 1-800-556-9444. Fee may apply.
• Listen at no charge at kp.org/listen or download to your computer or MP3 player.
  

Nutrition Advice Line

Do you have questions about nutrition? Call to get advice from a registered dietitian. This is a 24-hour voice mailbox, where a message can be left for a registered dietitian. Calls are generally returned within two business days.

•  FREE - available to Kaiser Permanente members only
•  For Davis, Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Roseville & Sacramento, call (916) 614-4979.
  

Take a Class

Our Health Education and Nutrition Services Departments offer many classes to help members to improve their diets and health. 

Check out the Healthy Living Catalog to learn more about classes that can teach you how to plan healthy menus, choose the right foods in the right amounts and read labels like a tough consumer and better manage some of your health concerns with a healthy diet.

Personalize a Program Online

HealthMedia Balance® - Get support managing your weight with this online program. HealthMedia Balance® is not a meal or exercise plan, but a tailored way to manage you weight by connecting your mind and body to the food you eat. Visit http://www.kp.org/healthylifestyles to get started.

10,000 Steps® Program* - Get active with this walking program designed to get you into better shape, one step at a time. Visit 10,000 Steps® to get started and walk your way to a fitter you.

Take a Class 

Managing Your Weight
This 90 minute one-session class emphasizes not only the principles of weight management but moves participants toward a greater comfort level with food. You will learn how to minimize non-hunger eating, cravings, and self-defeating beliefs about food and weight. This class is offered at no additional cost. Those wanting further support can sign up for Mindful Eating, a monthly support group in which they work on behavior changes and problem solving. The support group is also offered at no additional cost.
To sign up, call: Sacramento - (916) 614-4040, Roseville - (916) 784-4050, Folsom - (916) 817-5200

Healthy Ways: Healthy Lifestyle and Weight Management Program
This 8-week program provides comprehensive weight management techniques: Information and discussion about affecting balanced, low fat eating, exercise, dining out, shopping, cooking and how to internalize these lifestyle changes. 
Fee: $125.00
For information and registration forms, call: (916) 614-4980

Solution for Weight Management
This 12-week program is designed to turn off the drive to overeat as a response to stress. It offers developmental skills training (dvt) as a tool for you to nurture and set limits from within. These skills, blended into daily life over time, rewires the feeling brain--- the center of emotions, pleasure drives and stress --- to allow freedom from using overeating (or other self defeating behaviors) as a response to managing an out of control life.

Fee: $300 
We encourage you to come to a free orientation to learn more before committing: (916) 614-4971

Medical Weight Management Program
This 82 week program (20 months) is for people wanting to lose a minimum of 40 pounds and keep it off. By employing a meal replacement diet for a portion of the time, medical monitoring, weekly group sessions and more, the goal is to achieve life-long changes resulting in improved health. While using the meal replacement as a tool, this program teaches evidenced-based behavior change techniques that are associated with long-term results. This program requires a substantial financial and time commitment. We encourage you to sign up for a free orientation to hear an explanation of the program from the medical director, try the product and ask questions of past or present participants of the program. You can sign up for an orientation or get more information by calling (916) 614-4018.

Additional Support
Free Online Newsletter: Sign up for our free Maintain Weight online newsletter to receive monthly newsletters that provide information, tips, recipes, encouragement, and more to help you maintain a healthy weight and celebrate your success.   kp.org/maintainweight

Weight management information line: Call (916) 614-4980 to gain information on all programs.


*10,000 Steps® is a registered trademark of HealthPartners, Inc.