Prediabetes: Care Instructions
Prediabetes is a warning sign that you're at risk for getting type 2 diabetes. It means that your blood sugar is higher than it should be. But it's not high enough to be diabetes.
Fitness Deals
Stay active and fit with a variety of reduced rates on studios, gyms, fitness gear, and online classes — available for Kaiser Permanente members.
Checking Your Blood Pressure at Home
Checking your blood pressure at home helps you work with your doctor to diagnose and manage your blood pressure.
Your Guide to Heart Health
Your heart health guide to prevention, common conditions, and treatment and recovery.
Healthy Balance
Whether you’re seeking to manage your weight, or want to engage in a healthier lifestyle, we have the tools you need to succeed. Why wait?
Positive Choice Exercise Videos
Choose from a selection of workouts to meet your needs, including mini workouts, cardio, strength training, and yoga.
Mom’s Meals
It’s time we made better health more accessible, and it begins with the very food we eat. At Mom’s Meals, we purposefully design meals with the power to fill and fuel life. What all started with our own mom has…
Breastfeeding
Before your baby is born, plan ahead. Learn all you can about breastfeeding. This helps make breastfeeding easier.
Alcohol Self-Assessment
This self-assessment can help you determine if you’re drinking within the recommended healthy limits — or if you should consider quitting or cutting back. The tool is designed for adults 21 and older.
Alcohol Use Disorder
Alcohol use disorder means having unhealthy or dangerous drinking habits, such as drinking every day or drinking too much at a time. It can range from mild to severe. The more signs you have, the more severe the disorder may…
Alcohol and Drug Use
Some people who drink alcohol, use illegal drugs, or misuse prescription or nonprescription medicines may develop substance use disorder. This means that a person uses these substances even though it causes harm to themselves or others.
Caregiver Tips
Many people care for a spouse, a parent, or some other family member who is disabled or ill. Caregiving can be a rewarding experience. But caregiving can also be stressful.
Healthy Aging
Getting older is a natural part of life. How you will feel as you get older depends on many things, including what health problems run in your family and the choices you make. If you take good care of your…
Fall Prevention Tips for Seniors
In this 3-part video, seniors get helpful strategies for preventing falls. After George breaks his hip in a fall, see how he and his wife take steps to improve their balance and fall-proof their home.
Learning About Effective Parenting
Parenting can be hard. Trying to figure out how to do it well can be hard too. But if you're thinking about how to be a good parent, or ways you can get better at it, you're already on the…
How to Help Your Child Who Bullies
It can be hard to accept that your child may be bullying other children. But once you recognize the problem, you can help solve it by helping your child learn how his or her actions affect others. Being sensitive to others' feelings…
Helping Your Child Build Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is a person's core belief about himself or herself. A person's self-esteem is reflected in his or her actions, both in how as well as what he or she does.
Healthy Eating for Children
Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods so that your child gets the nutrients (such as protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, and minerals) he or she needs for normal growth. If your child regularly eats a wide variety of basic…
Life Care Planning
In Life Care Planning, you will choose someone to represent your health care wishes if there’s a time in the future when you can’t speak, and you will also decide what you want that person to say.
Advance Health Care Directive
This Advance Health Care Directive allows you to share your values, your choices, and your instructions about your future health care.
Quitting Smoking
Quitting smoking isn't easy. But if you smoke, quitting is the best thing you can do for your health. Smoking increases your risk for cancer, diabetes, heart failure, and other serious medical problems.
Get Fit Fitness Videos
Choose from a wide range of workouts in this playlist from Kaiser Permanente Get Fit Southern California, including using equipment like stretch bands and foam rollers or relaxing with a body scan meditation.
Healthy Balance Exercise Videos
Movement from both daily activities and planned exercise routines can help you get to a healthy weight. Find daily activities to boost physical fitness.
Living Healthier with Diabetes
Diabetes is a rapidly growing health problem. Currently, more than 21 million people in the United States have diabetes. Without care, diabetes can lead to complications that include kidney failure, eye problems, nerve damage, heart disease and high blood pressure, stroke,…
Healthy Eating: Resisting Temptation in Social Situations
Being with family and friends can make it harder than ever to say no to tempting food and drink.
Quick Tips: Making Fast, Healthy Meals
Making healthy meals doesn't have to take a lot of time or require complicated recipes. There are many ways you can save time in the kitchen and still eat delicious, healthy food. It's just a matter of having the right…
Quick Tips: Making Healthy Snacks
A big part of healthy eating is eating more whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk products. Healthy snacks are a great way to make sure that you get plenty of these nutritious foods every day. Use these ideas to…
Healthy Eating
Healthy eating starts with learning new ways to eat, such as adding more fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and cutting back on foods that have a lot of fat, salt, and sugar.
Help with Plant-Based Eating and Cooking Demos
Watch videos about help with plant-based eating and healthy cooking demos.
Positive Choice Integrative Wellness Center
The Positive Choice Integrative Wellness Center at Kaiser Permanente San Diego strives to not merely treat symptoms or illness, but to evaluate a person's entire lifestyle and then create a lifestyle plan for balance and overall wellness.
Social Health
When you think about health, you might think of doctor visits and medicine. But what about access to healthy food? Or a safe place to live? Good health requires more than just health care. You need to be supported in…
Total Health Assessment
Make good health a part of your daily habits with our healthy lifestyle programs. These personalized, online programs can help you create an action plan to reach your health goals. Based on your Total Health Assessment results, you’ll find advice,…
