Learn personalized strategies for making the best food choices to feel energized, manage your weight, and live a longer and healthier life.

Nutrition Special Needs Counseling
Individual counseling and classes are available if you have special nutritional requirements, such as diabetic, prenatal, hypertensive, cardiac, or renal needs. For members only and by referral only. Check with your personal physician or nurse practitioner for approval and enrollment information.

Cultivating Health Kits
We offer go-at-your-own-pace kits for Weight Management, Freedom from Tobacco, and Everyday Fitness. These kits are designed to be completed at home and are available at our Health Education Centers for $15.

Nutrition Advice Line
Questions about food and nutrition? Leave a brief message with your name, medical record number, and phone number. A registered dietitian will get back to you with answers. For members only.
Hayward/Union City: (510) 675-2141; Fremont: (510) 248-3218

Managing Your Weight
Successful weight loss requires more than just cutting calories. Learn how making healthy lifestyle choices, including regular exercise, proper nutrition, and a positive attitude, can help you lose weight and keep it off. Open to the community.
~ Location: Fremont and Hayward Medical Centers
~ Dates/Time: One session; Call for dates and times
~ Fee: No charge
~ Registration: (510) 248-3455 Fremont; (510) 784-4531 Hayward/Union City

Healthy Lifestyles and Weight Management Program for Adults
Feel better and enjoy a more positive self-image as you develop a healthier lifestyle. This in-depth program is designed to help you improve your health through permanent lifestyle changes. It provides guidance and support for physical activity, healthy eating, stress management, communication skills, and strategies for maintaining progress. Prerequisite: “Managing Your Weight.”
~ Location: Fremont and Hayward Medical Centers
~ Dates/Time: Ten sessions; 9:45–11:45 a.m. and 7–9 p.m.; call for dates
~ Fee: $75 members; $125 nonmembers (fee includes materials)#flushleft ~ Registration: (510) 248-3455 Fremont; (510) 784-4531 Hayward/Union City

Weight Loss Surgery Overview
Are you interested in learning more about whether weight loss surgery is right for you? Learn the risks and benefits of this surgery, as well as tools to help promote weight management. For members only.
~ Location: Fremont and Hayward Medical Centers
~ Dates/Time: Call for dates and times
~ Fee: $10
~ Registration: (510) 248-3455 Fremont; (510) 784-4531 Hayward/Union City or (510) 675-4050 Pediatrics

Overeaters Anonymous
A support group for more and women dealing with compulsive eating. Please go to www.oa.org to find the meeting nearest you

Self- Help Options

Health Education Centers
Self-paced information, videos, books, and additional resources on weight, nutrition, and health are available in the Health Education Centers.

Cultivating Health Kit
Feel better and develop a more positive self-image. The Cultivating Health: Weight Management Kit is a way for a more individualized approach to weight loss. The tools contained in the kit put you in control because you design your own weight management program. These kits are designed to be completed at home and are available at our Health Education Centers.

If you need more information or would like to register for a class please contact one of our Health Education Centers:

Fremont 510-248-3455

Hayward & Union City 510-784-4531