Food and nutrition Archives - Aspire Health Plan

Happy older couple cooks a delicious, healthy meal following expert tips

Healthy eating tips for older adults, from Aspire Health Coaches

Aspire members have access to a Health Coach as they work toward their health goals, including learning how to improve their diets. This March, for Nutrition Month, we asked our Aspire Health Coaches to share their expertise on the basics of healthy eating.

4 ways to practice mindful healthy eating this holiday season

Although many holiday activities revolve around food, we can choose to practice mindful eating to improve our quality of life and manage conditions like Type 2 diabetes. Let's talk about what it means to eat mindfully and consider how to do so this holiday season.

Exploring the Mediterranean diet

Blue Zones Project – Monterey County, Food and nutrition, Partners in Health, Your Health and Wellness

With the help of our Population Health team, we put together some information about the Mediterranean diet, how it can help you live a healthier lifestyle and some resources to help you do it.

Aspire Blog - Creating a Wellness Vision - Woman eating healthy holding an apple

How to practice mindful eating, movement and connection

Blue Zones Project – Monterey County, Choose Happy, Exercise and fitness, Food and nutrition, Mental health and wellbeing, Partners in Health, Your Health and Wellness

As we focus on "Choose Happy" and the link between happiness and health, one of the ways to do this is by practicing mindfulness when we eat, when we move and when we connect with people.

Four nutrition tips from the Blue Zones

Blue Zones Project – Monterey County, Food and nutrition, Partners in Health, Your Health and Wellness

March is National Nutrition Month, and it is a great time to take inventory of what you are putting into your body. The Blue Zones Project® is working locally in Monterey County on supporting these findings to create a sustainable impact. Using these and other resources, we put together these nutrition tips.

How to create SMART weight loss goals and achieve them

Exercise and fitness, Food and nutrition, Your Health and Wellness

Setting SMART goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources to help you make the very most of your life.