We are Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
We are the healthiest way to:
- Transform nutrition in a longevity science
- Promote younger and longer life, through the power of food
- Promote weight loss, healthy life and support to control chronic diseases
The Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
- Scientific evidence;
- International medical guidelines;
- Genetic analysis (*);
- Each subscriber's dietary preferences and limitations;
- The programme combines a healthy and personalized diet with structured physical activity and motivational support.
- Assessment of cardiovascular risk (risk of angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, and death from cardiac causes);
- The susceptibility to major chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and sleep apnea.
Deeper personal insights:
Genetic analysis provides broader value, revealing individual physical characteristics and behavioral tendencies.
Ongoing support and education:
Subscribers have access to a food literacy program, standard and personalized weekly menus, and remote teleconsultation for ongoing support.
Flexible access:
- The program is available online for convenience and also in a high-quality print version.
The importance of a healthy diet, in obese or overweight people, medicated with GLP-1 analogs, lies in the fact that this treatment is associated with:
– Daily loss of 300 kcal due to increased protein and fiber deficit;
– 40% reduction in body weight due to loss of lean mass;
(*) In the Miosotis Healthy Life Program, genetic analysis is not the determining factor in defining the dietary plan. It complements the personalization process to maximize the response to the dietary plan.
Services provided by Miosotis Healthy Life
- For 18 weeks, in 3 different plans
- The plans are Base, Standard and Premium, with Base Plan being the least personalized and Premium the most personalized, selected according to everyone’s preference.
- Designed to identify cardiovascular risk factors and calculate the risk of a citizen suffering from heart atack or death within the next 10 years.
- The risk of developing up to 18 other chronic diseases can also be calculated.
- Designed to identify dietary errors in specific communities or individual citizens and provide guidance for their correction.
- Healthy eating guidelines will be provided, including personalized meal plans.
- Designed to promote controlled and supervised physical activity, directed at specific citizens or communities.
- The activity will be personalized according to the needs, conditions, and availability of each citizen
- Programs intended to promote healthy eating habits.
- It is designed to assign to menus and restaurants the stamp of Miosotis Healthy Food
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
- It's an innovative healthy eating and weight loss programme for 18 weeks, based on:
- Scientific evidence;
- Genetic analysis of each subscriber;
It includes:
- A healthy eating programme;
- An optimized and customized weekly menu,
- A physical activity programme;
- A psychological motivational support programme;
- A customized teleconsultation programme;
- Cardiovascular risk assessment (risk of diabetes, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, death from cardiac causes, etc.).
- Advices on super, functional and sirt foods and on dietary supplements;
- It is provided in a print edition and an online edition;
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme offers:
Miosotis Healthy Life program is an innovative programme that combines a healthy eating and weight loss programme with a motivational programme and a physical activity programme.
As a health and wellness programme, it also assesses the risk of each individual suffering from a heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiac causes, provides nutritional supplements and offers training in healthy eating.
- A complete programme for healthy eating and living, available in book and online format.
- Standard menu in each phase
- Customized menu for each phase and each week, based on scientific evidence and genetic analysis.
- Menu advice on super, functional and sirt foods
- Motivational advices and a complet weekly motivational programme
- Advices on physical activity and a complet weekly physical activity programme
- Teleconsultation support
- Weight and waist monitoring at each stage
- Customized cardiovascular risk assessment
- Weekly literacy programme on healthy eating
- Advices on dietary supplements
- Customized report at each week
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme is intended to:
- Treat obesity and overweight.
- Promote healthy eating.
- Determine and follow-up cardiovascular risk of subscribers (risk of diabetes, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, death from cardiac causes, peripheral arterial disease, etc.).
The programme is accompanied by:
- A motivation programme
- A physical activity programme
- Personalized teleconsultation
The programme also includes:
- Personalized assessment of cardiovascular risk.
- If necessary, to enhance the healthy food plan, the inclusion of food supplements and replacements.
Healthy diet
- A healthy diet helps to protect against malnutrition as well as non-communicable diseases (diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer).
- Unhealthy eating and lack of physical activity, are causing global health risks.
- Healthy eating practices should start with breastfeeding that promotes healthy growth and reduces the risk of being overweight or obese.
- Energy intake (calories) must be in balance with energy expenditure.
- Total fat intake should not exceed 30% of total energy intake.
- Saturated fat intake should be less than 10% of total energy intake and trans fat intake should be less than 1% of total energy intake.
- Limit sugar intake to less than 10% of total energy intake. A further reduction to less than 5% of total energy intake is suggested for additional health benefits.
- Keeping salt intake below 5 g per day helps prevent hypertension and reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke in the adult population.
Obesity and overweight
- Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese.
- Most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2020.
- Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016.
- Obesity is preventable.
Weight reduction: >12% in 18 weeks
- Are you looking for a result-oriented slimming and healthy eating program?
- Are you looking to lose weight and eat healthily?
- Well, we understand your fears and challenges.
- That is why we are here to provide you with the best result-oriented slimming and healthy eating programme.
- Your satisfaction is our utmost priority.
Eating well is choosing to live longer and better
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Wake up and change your life
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Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
is the right solution for you
It’s a programme designed to treat obesity and overweight, to promote healthy eating and to evaluate cardiovascular risk of subscribers.
Miosotis Healthy life programme is:
- A complete 18-week programme
- Started with a low-carb diet
- Based on the Mediterranean Diet
- Rich in fibre and low in sugars
- Rich in healthy carbs and low in harmful carbs
- Rich in vegetable fat and low in saturated fat
- Rich in vegetable protein
Why a weight loss programme?
Because obesity and excess weight are the leading diseases of the 21st century.
Why a healthy eating programme?
Because it's the cheapest and most effective way to treat obesity and excess weight.
Why a Genetic analyses?
Because it's the most effective way to promote a more customized and healthy diet.
Why a customized weekly menu?
Because it's the most effective way to adhere to a healthy eating regimen.
Why a psychological support programme?
Because it's very important in helping to control the compulsive eating habits associated with obesity.
Why a cardiovascular risk assessment programme?
Because the risk of heart attack and stroke is associated with obesity and excess weight.
Why dietary supplements?
Because they are sometimes necessary to enhance healthy eating.
Why a physical activity program?
Because it's associated with weight reduction and a healthier lifestyle.
Why a teleconsultation programme?
Because it's very important in supporting those who want to eat healthily.
Why the Mediterranean Diet?
Because it's the healthiest diet known.
Why a printed and online versions?
Because the printed version makes it easier to follow the healthy eating plan, and the online version makes it easier to consult from anywhere.
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme recipients:
The Miosotis Healthy life programme is intended for any citizen, in particular for:
Obese or overweight.
Diabetics or who have diabetic family members.
Hypertensive (on medication or not).
With high cholesterol.
Who has suffered from Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction) or Stroke (Cerebral Thrombosis).
Who has family members that have already suffered a heart attack
Smokers or who live with smokers.
Subscribers interested in:
Treating his obesity or reduce his weight.
Eat a healthy diet to improve control of a chronic disease (diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary or cerebrovascular disease, etc.) or to reduce the risk of it occurring.
Our Team of Directors
We are a team of health professionals passionate about wellness and nutrition. Our experts create personalized plans to support healthy and lasting results. Together, we’re here to help you live better, feel better and stay balanced.
Carlos Baeta
Clinical Director
Nabor Canilhas
Psychologist Director of Psychology Support
Nelson
Physiologist Director of Physical Activity Support
About our Clinical Director:
– Doctor, graduated from Nova Medical School. Specialist in Internal Medicine, Consultant and Senior Graduate Hospital Assistant.
– Member of the Portuguese Medical Association – 24577 and of the IMC (Irish Medical Council) – 415934 (Specialist registration).
– 43 years of experience in clinical practice: 34 at ULSNA (Northeast Alentejo Local Health Unit), as a Specialist and Consultant in Internal Medicine; 4 as Consultant at AMAU – OLOL (Acute Medical Assessment Unit – Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ireland).
– He also has specific training in cardiovascular risk, obesity and nutrition (Postgraduate Degree in Mediterranean Diet – University of Barcelona; Postgraduate Degree in Clinical Nutrition – University of Navarra; Member of the Editorial Board of the scientific publication CPQ Nutrition.
– He developed several management activities, including: member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa; President of the Student Association of that Faculty; Director of the Internal Medicine Department; President of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee; Coordinator of the Intensive Care Unit and units of Cardiology and Arterial Hypertension;
– He is the author and co-author of several studies related to the organization and functioning of health units and knowledge representation, controlled natural language and biomedical ontologies.
– He participated, as a researcher and co-investigator, in several national and international multicentre scientific trials and was the national coordinator of two of them.
– He has presented more than 300 scientific papers, many of them at national and international meetings and he has organized more than 100 scientific events. He was the President of the 19th Portuguese Congress on Atherosclerosis.
– He is the author and co-author of 26 scientific articles published in several national and international specialist journals.