Nutrition Domain

Nutritional Readiness

“The Army’s comprehensive performance nutrition program concept and framework encompasses three components—proactive, active, and reactive.”

Proactive 

The proactive component, or foundational nutrition, entails chronic disease prevention and immune system enhancement. 


Active 

The active component, or operational (occupational and environmental task-specific performance) nutrition, focuses on event fueling and post event recovery and arduous environment preparedness.


Reactive 

The reactive component, or therapeutic nutrition, centers on specific nutritional interventions to treat (as opposed to prevent) an illness, injury, or condition.