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;
- 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.
Ongoing support and education:
Participants have access to a food literacy programme, standard and personalized weekly menus, and remote teleconsultation for ongoing support.
Flexible access:
- The programme is available online for convenience and in a high-quality print edition.
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 muscle fatigue, related to muscle mass loss that may represent up to 40% of weight loss)
To avoid this loss of muscle mass, in the Miosotis Healthy Life Programme, we adapt the diet and physical activity regimen for this purpose.
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 attack 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.
- A certification programme that promotes healthy eating habits.
- It awards the Miosotis Healthy Food seal to menus and restaurants
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme
It’s an innovative healthy eating and weight loss programme for 24 weeks, based on scientific evidence;
The Miosotis Healthy Life Program includes:
- A healthy eating program;
- An optimized and personalized weekly menu;
- A physical activity program;
- A psychological and motivational support program;
- A personalized teleconsultation program;
- Cardiovascular risk assessment (risk of diabetes, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, death from cardiac causes, etc.);
- Advice on superfoods, functional foods and foods rich in sucrose, as well as dietary supplements;
- Teleconsulting support
- Available in print and online versions;
Miosotis Healthy Life Programme offers:
Is an innovative programme that combines a healthy eating and weight loss programme with a motivational programme and a physical activity programme.
- A complete program for healthy eating and lifestyle, available in print and online versions.
- Standard menu for each phase and week.
- Personalized 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 rich in sirtuins (Sirtfoods).
- Motivational counseling and a complete weekly motivational program.
- Recommendations on physical activity and a complete weekly physical activity program.
- Weekly healthy eating literacy program.
- Recommendations on dietary supplements.
- Weekly healthy eating practice program.
- Teleconsultation support.
- Monitoring of weight and abdominal circumference at each stage and week.
- Personalized cardiovascular risk assessment.
- Personalized 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 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.
1Weight reduction: >12% in 24 weeks
- Are you looking for a result-oriented slimming 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 slimming and healthy eating programme.
- Your satisfaction is our utmost priority.
Eating well is choosing to live longer and better
Be active. Don't just dream
Wake up and change your life
It's never too late to start
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 participants.
Miosotis Healthy life programme is:
- A complete 24-weeks 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 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 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).
People with a family that have already suffered a heart attack
Smokers or who live with smokers.
Participants 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 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.