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Nutritional fitness is a key factor that can affect an individual's resilience and readiness to perform military duties

• Being nutritionally unfit may prevent an individual from adequately coping with the stress of military duty.
• Nutritional fitness contributes to resilience by helping service members maintain a healthy weight.
• Nutritional fitness contributes to resilience by protecting service members against diet-related diseases that affect physical and cognitive functions.
• Nutritional fitness contributes to resilience by reducing service members' vulnerability to stress and depression.

This report is one of a series designed to support Air Force leaders in promoting resilience among its Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force family members. It examines the relationship between nutritional fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that address self-regulation, positive affect, perceived control, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and optimism. Supporting or increasing the levels of the key measures of nutritional fitness identified in this report may facilitate resilience and can protect Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families from the negative effects of stress. The report also reviews construct measures, well-being, and resilience outcomes as well as interventions designed to promote the nutritional fitness constructs.

• Chapter One

  The Context of This Report

• Chapter Two

  Background to This Report

• Chapter Three

  Nutritional Fitness Constructs, Measures, and Links to Health Outcomes

• Chapter Four

  Motivators and Barriers: Psychosocial and Environmental Variables

• Chapter Five

  Interventions That Promote Nutritional Fitness

• Chapter Six

  Conclusions