Community Wellness can help you learn to practice healthy and mindful eating, which means paying attention to what you eat and making healthy choices. We can also help you recognize the warning signs for eating and body-image problems.
Medical Services
Contact your primary care provider or one of our clinicians about using nutrition to help manage diabetes, blood pressure, or other health conditions; losing or gaining weight; or managing an eating disorder.
Classes, workshops, and groups
- Nutrition and Fitness: A course offered for physical education credit by Community Wellness at MIT Medical through the Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER). Topics include the components and benefits of a healthy diet and physical activity as well as tips on how to achieve personal goals and boost productivity.
- Contact: 617-253-4291
- Email: mitpe@mit.edu
- Nutrition Coaching, MIT Recreation: Whether your goal is weight management, improved athletic performance, or managing a medical condition, MIT Recreation’s nutrition program can provide you with the tools you need to sustain a meal plan that fits your personal lifestyle.
- To register for nutrition coaching, login or create an account, then select “nutrition coaching” from the series sales menu.
- Community Wellness Group Health Coaching Classes: Community Wellness at MIT Medical offers group health-coaching classes. “Creating the Healthy Life You Want” is offered seven times a year. The class provides opportunities for reflection and help with breaking down your goals into realistic, incremental weekly experiments. Participation is limited, and each class member chooses the goals he or she wants to work on.
- For more information and/or to register, visit our Classes & Programs page.
- Nourish: A student wellness group on eating and body image
- Friday afternoons at MIT Medical
- For more information visit medical.mit.edu/speakersworkshops or email Zan Barry at bars@med.mit.edu
Individual Consultations
- Student wellness consultations: MIT students may meet with a Community Wellness health coach for up to three sessions of health and wellness coaching.
- To request a student wellness consultation, send an email to wellness@med.mit.edu.
- Nutrition appointments with Registered Dietician Anna Jasonides. You will need a referral from a primary care provider (PCP) at MIT Medical. Copayment may apply.
Weight-loss reimbursement
Members of all three employee health plans—the MIT Traditional Health Plan, MIT Choice Plan, and MIT High Deductible Health Plan—are eligible for reimbursement of expenses related to participation in qualified weight-loss programs. Qualified programs consist of Weight Watchers meetings, Weight Watchers at Work, and hospital-based weight-loss programs. Get the details and download the reimbursement form here.
Beginning in 2019, certain Community Wellness classes may be eligible for the weight-loss reimbursement. To find out if a particular class qualifies, call Blue Cross Blue Shield Member Services at 1-800-882-1093. No classes prior to January 1, 2019 are eligible.
