Official websites use .mil
Secure .mil websites use HTTPS
Weight Management for WII
Service members can face many challenges during their recovery process from a wound, injury, or illness. Reaching or maintaining a healthy weight can be one of them. Sailors and Marines may become concerned with a healthy weight if their injury or illness affects their diet and/or activity level. Unhealthy weight is not just having extra pounds, it can also mean being below your ideal weight. Being over- or underweight can impact your ability to heal and recover. Weight management is the ability to balance the calories you take in with the calories used each day to stay at a healthy weight. You can gain and lose weight in many different ways. However, a diet packed with high nutrition for fueling and an active lifestyle are important to weight management, as well as critical to recovery, quality of life, fitness level, and the body’s ability to function optimally. [1,2] In this section, we introduce the basics of weight management along with resources and strategies to assist you.
Understanding the Basics of Weight
Healthy Weight for WII Fact Sheet Series
Getting Started
Determining Your Caloric Needs
Challenges and Adjustments to a Healthy Weight
Getting Connected
Additional Information and Tools
1. Denton, Carolyn. What Do Specific Foods Do? University of Minnesota-Taking Charge of Your Health and Wellbeing. http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/explore-healing-practices/food-medicine/what-do-specific-foods-do. Published March 2009. Accessed 15 May 2014.
2. Weir, K. The Exercise Effect. American Psychological Association. Monitor on Psychology. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/12/exercise.aspx Published December 2011, Vol 42, No. 11. Accessed 9 May 2014.
Clinical guidance, including recognition, management and clinical isolation guidance are generally covered by CDC: CDC Clinical Overview
Clinical management for Fleet medical personnel can be found in the NMCFHPC Fleet Mpox Medical Guidance
Clinical guidance for MTFs can be found in the DHA Mpox Guidance Update_5Sept2024
Currently, neither mpox testing nor treatment are readily available in a forward deployed operational setting. Units should identify suspected cases, isolate them, and move them for care at an MTF when operationally feasible.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 7700 Arlington Blvd. Ste. 5113 Falls Church, VA 22042-5113 This is an official U.S. Navy website This is a Department of Defense (DoD) Internet computer system. General Navy Medical Inquiries (to Bureau of Medicine and Surgery): usn.ncr.bumedfchva.list.bumed---pao@health.mil