Patients & Visitors

• You have diabetes, cardiovascular problems or high blood pressure or want to reduce your risk of developing chronic diseases.
• You need to gain or lose some weight.
• You are thinking of having or have had weight loss surgery.
• You have digestive problems.
• You’re pregnant or trying to get pregnant.
• Your teenager has issues with food and eating healthfully.
• You want to improve your performance in sports.

Top Reasons to Consult an Exercise Physiologist:

• You want to decrease your risk for chronic diseases or want help managing current ailments.
• You want know your body composition and how to lose weight.
• You want to know how to exercise effectively.
• You want to learn new exercise techniques and become acquainted with current exercise guidelines.

If you have any of these concerns, make an individual appointment with Outpatient Clinical Nutrition Services. Our dietitians and exercise physiologist can help you develop personalized goals to put you on the path of weight loss, healthy eating and reducing your risk for chronic diseases.

Educational Classes and Workshop Offerings:

Weight Management Workshop (Active Duty & Beneficiaries) – also known as SHIPSHAPE:
An eight week nutrition and weight management course designed to provide participants with basic information regarding nutrition, stress management, exercise, and behavior modification techniques to lower and maintain body weight and percent body fat. Attendance is open to all DoD beneficiaries, especially anyone who exceeds, or is in danger of exceeding body composition assessment standards. See upcoming schedule (Click Here)

Bariatric Surgery & Nutrition Therapy:
Held twice a month. Registration and location is in the General Surgery Clinic, bldg. 9 (Arrowhead), 1st floor. **Bariatric surgery is NOT authorized for active duty Service members.  For more details on Bariatric Surgery (Click Here)  Nutrition for Bariatric Surgery Presentation OCT 2014

Diabetes:
Diabetes education offered on the 2nd and 3rd Wednesdays each month in conjunction with the Diabetes Self-Management Education Program. Call The Diabetes Institute at 301-319-2872 for registration and location information.

Heart Healthy (Coming Soon):
Held in partnership with the WRNMMC Cardiology Service to educate civilians and military members on how to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood glucose. 

Slides for class (Click Here) Barracks Culinary Arts:
Coming soon.

Commissary Tours:
Please see flyer for dates/times and RSVP information. (Click Here) 

Aquatic Exercise Class:
Held every Wednesday and Friday from 1000-1100 in bldg 17 pool. Please contact 301-295-4065.

Helpful Links:

• http://www.eatright.org/
• http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
• http://www.nutrition.gov/
• http://hprc-online.org/
• https://www.milsuite.mil/video/watch/newvideo/5168

Patients are highly encouraged to schedule follow-up individual appointments with dietitians after attending any group session. For questions, call the Outpatient Clinical Nutrition Clinic.