We Are The Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
We provide a healthier way to:
- Transform nutrition into a science of healthy longevity
- Promote a longer, healthier life through the power of food
- Promote weight loss, healthy living and support for managing chronic diseases
The Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
- Scientific evidence;
- International medical guidelines;
- Each subscriber’s dietary preferences and limitations.
- The programme combines a healthy and personalised 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);
- Susceptibility to major chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and sleep apnoea.
Ongoing support and education:
Subscribers have access to a food literacy programme, standard and personalised weekly menus, and remote consultations for ongoing support.
Flexible access:
- The programme is available online for convenience andin a high-quality printed edition.
A healthy diet is particularly important for people who are overweight or obese and are being treated with GLP-1 analogues, because lies in the fact that this treatment is associated with muscle fatigue, related to loss of muscle mass (which may represent up to 40% of the weight lost).
Services provided by Miosotis Healthy Life
- Available for 18 weeks in three different plans
- The plans are Base, Standard and Premium, with the Base plan being the least personalised and the Premium plan the most personalised, selected according to each subscriber’s preferences.
- Designed toidentify cardiovascular risk factors and calculate the risk of an individual suffering a heart attack or dying 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 personalised meal plans.
- A certification programme that promotes healthy eating habits.
- It awards the Miosotis Healthy Food seal to selected menus and restaurants.
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
The Miosotis Healthy Life Programme includes:
- A healthy eating Programme;
- An optimised and personalised weekly menu;
- A physical activity Programme;
- A psychological and motivational support programme;
- A personalised teleconsultation programme;
- Cardiovascular risk assessment (risk of diabetes, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, death from cardiac causes, etc.);
- Advice on superfoods, functional foods and foods that activate sirtuins (sirtfoods), as well as dietary supplements;
- Teleconsultation support;
- Available in print and online versions;
The Miosotis Healthy Life Programme offers:
- A complete programme for healthy eating and lifestyle, available in print and online versions.
- Standard menu for each phase and week.
- personalised menu for each phase, week, and day, based on scientific evidence and individual profile (food preferences and incompatibilities).
- Weekly recommendations on superfoods, functional foods, and foods that activate sirtuins (sirtfoods).
- Motivational counselling and a complete weekly motivational programme .
- Recommendations on physical activity and a complete weekly physical activity programme .
- Weekly healthy eating literacy programme .
- Recommendations on dietary supplements.
- Weekly healthy eating practice programme .
- Teleconsultation support.
- Monitoring of weight and abdominal circumference at each stage and week.
- personalised cardiovascular risk assessment.
- personalised weekly report.
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 kill 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 24 weeks
- Are you looking for a results-oriented weight loss and healthy eating programme?
- 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 weight loss 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 the cardiovascular risk of subscribers.
The Miosotis Healthy Life Programme is:
- A complete 24-week programme
- Starts 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 is one of the most affordable and effective ways to address obesity and excess weight.
Why a genetic analysis
Because it's the most effective way to promote a more customised and healthy diet.
Why a personalised 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 programme?
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 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 everyone, particularly:
People who are obese or overweight.
People with diabetes or a family history of diabetes.
People with hypertension, whether or not they are taking medication.
People with high cholesterol.
People who have suffered a heart attack (myocardial infarction) or stroke (cerebral thrombosis).
People whose family members have suffered a heart attack.
Smokers or people who live with smokers.
Subscribers interested in:
Treating obesity or reducing weight.
Eating 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 personalised 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 Psychological 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) and is a member of the Editorial Board of the scientific publication CPQ Nutrition.
– He has held several management positions, 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 the Cardiology and Arterial Hypertension units.
– He is the author and co-author of several studies related to the organisation and functioning of health units and knowledge representation, controlled natural language and biomedical ontologies.
– He has 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 organised 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.