Nutrition Program
This nutrition program offered by WeMD for Blue Shield of California Lifestyle Rewards covers all aspects of nutrition and diet to improve your health in daily life. Read more
Keeping It Fresh - Review of the program
Phase 10: Keeping It Fresh - Step 6: Review of the program
You’re almost finished! This step is your last review in the program, so take a few moments to absorb the most important points of the entire program: Read more
Consult a Dietitian
Phase 10: Keeping It Fresh - Step 2: Consult a dietitian
There’s a lot to know about how food affects your health, and hopefully you’ll want to maintain your healthy lifestyle for the rest of your life. So it’s a good idea to be sure that you’re making the right choices and using plenty of creative methods to keep your diet interesting. That’s why you might want to pay at least one visit to a dietitian or nutritionist. Read more
Eating Vegetarian and Vegan Diets
Phase 9: Special Issues - Step 2: Eating vegetarian and vegan diets
As you’ve increased the amount of fruits and vegetables you eat each day and cut down your servings of red meat, you may have asked yourself the past few months “Am I becoming a vegetarian on this program?”
Plenty of people do decide to live a full- or part-time vegetarian lifestyle for many reasons, including their health. Vegetarians tend to keep a healthier body weight, lower blood pressure, and a lower risk of heart disease and cancer. The sensible diet described in this program can actually offer all these benefits while still allowing some animal products. Read more
Watch Your Portion Sizes
Phase 8: Eating for Weight Loss - Step 5: Watch your portion sizes
The foods you put on your plate — or that restaurant servers give you — aren’t what they used to be. In many cases, they’re much, much bigger.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), here’s how some foods have grown in just 20 years: Read more
Dine Out Healthfully
Phase 8: Eating for Weight Loss - Step 4: Dine out healthfully
Eating away from home can often present a number of challenges to your resolve to eat healthfully. Here are some suggestions gathered from The American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Read more
Avoid Fad Diets
Phase 8: Eating for Weight Loss - Step 3: Avoid fad diets
Fad diets may work in the short term simply by reducing the number of calories you eat, but they’re hard to stick with for a long period of time because you get tired of eating the same foods over and over. Once you go back to your usual way of eating the pounds you lost often come right back. Read more
Healthy Meal Planning
Phase 7: Healthy Meal Planning - Step 7: Review
It’s time for your second review, which gives you the chance to revisit some of the points from earlier in the program. Read more
The Elements of a Healthy Diet: Fiber and phytochemicals
Phase 4: The Elements of a Healthy Diet - Step 4: Fiber and phytochemicals
If you know only a little about fiber, you might think that it’s something you really don’t want or need in your diet. After all, food manufacturers remove the high-fiber portions of grains during processing to make white flour, white bread, and white rice. However, fiber is an important part of your diet. Read more
The Elements of a Healthy Diet: Dietary fat
Phase 4: The Elements of a Healthy Diet - Step 3: Dietary fat
Fat has an important role in a healthy diet, as long as you eat it in moderation. Stick with the “good” fats and avoid the harmful ones whenever possible. According to the government’s nutrition experts, between 20 and 35 percent of your calories each day can come from fat. However, many other experts suggest 30 percent as the upper limit. Read more
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