Whiteman AFB Health Promotion

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Health Promotion fosters a culture and environment that values health and wellness; empowers individuals and organizations to lead healthy lives; and improves the health, mission readiness and productivity of the military community. The mission of Health Promotion includes:
- Comprehensively guide and support installation leadership in fostering a culture and environment that values health, fitness, and wellness.
- Reducing and removing existing barriers to individuals and organizations adopting sustainable strategies toward leading healthy lifestyles.
- Enhance the health of Airmen and beneficiaries.
- Improve the mission readiness, productivity, and resilience of Airmen. Services Include:
- Assessment of population health needs and interests for the installation.
- Identifying high-risk units with suboptimal population health metrics.
- Providing unit commanders, first sergeants, and superintendents with actionable data on Airmen health.
- Collaborating with unit commanders to implement evidence-based unit health interventions that promote Airmen health, fitness, and mission performance.
- Implementing and evaluating health communication interventions that promote healthy behaviors.
- Integrating and implementing community outreach and prevention programs through actively participating in the installation Community Action Team.
- Building 509th Medical Group capacities to effectively deliver clinical interventions that address health behaviors.
- Body Composition measurements using the Bod Pod and In-Body
- Individual appointments for weight management, tobacco quit plans, sleep optimization and physical activity.
-Group education and information regarding nutrition, tobacco free living, sleep optimization, nutritional supplements, and physical activity at the worksite is available upon request. Please contact the Health Promotion Coordinator at 660-687-1199.
- Healthy lifestyle contests at worksite are available
- Exercise classes
- Exercise physiology guidance


The mission of Nutritional Medicine includes:
- Diabetes Management
- HTN
- High Cholesterol
- Food Allergies
- Weight Management for Adults, Adolescents, and Children
- Bariatric

Services include:
- BEST S.E.L.F. healthy weight class including lifestyle behaviors
- Patients who are medically referred for nutrition medicine diagnosis (pre-diabetes, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, digestive conditions (Crohn's disease, IBS, etc), nutritional deficiencies, infant and child nutritional conditions.
- Classes or lectures regarding various nutrition topics upon request
- Nutrition community/worksite events upon request: ie cooking classes, meals prep classes, commissary tours

For more information on the services available from the Health Promotion
Dietitian, call 660-687-DIET (3438).

Another reason to know where you carry your mass- is it mainly fat or lean mass? Body composition testing can help. Cal...
01/17/2026

Another reason to know where you carry your mass- is it mainly fat or lean mass? Body composition testing can help. Call Health Promotion to schedule the InBody or the Bod Pod.

01/16/2026
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01/16/2026

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Another reason to eat real food!
01/11/2026

Another reason to eat real food!

Here is the background on big Food Companies and their role in our health. We have shown a video in our briefs and class...
01/08/2026

Here is the background on big Food Companies and their role in our health. We have shown a video in our briefs and classes covering how ultraprocessed foods are addictive, just like to***co.

Could it become a landmark case? Plaintiff claims companies used a ‘1980s cigarette playbook’ to addict people; names Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Post, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General ...

Check out our new pyramid!
01/07/2026

Check out our new pyramid!

Under President Trump’s leadership, common sense, scientific integrity, and accountability have been restored to federal food and health policy.

For decades, the Dietary Guidelines favored corporate interests over common-sense, science-driven advice to improve the health of Americans.

That ends today.

The new Dietary Guidelines call for prioritizing high-quality protein, healthy fats, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains—and avoiding highly processed foods and refined carbohydrates.

https://realfood.gov/

Get on up and out of that chair!
01/07/2026

Get on up and out of that chair!

Even for people who are highly active, spending most of the day seated can be bad for your health. https://ow.ly/ONV050XSbcn

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Whiteman Air Force Base, MO
65305

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