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19Aug, 2024
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“HEALTHFUL RANGE” RATHER THAN “VARIETY OF FOODS”

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Advising people to have a varied diet could encourage them to eat foods that are not so good for their health in addition to those that are. Instead, the emphasis should be on “health[ful] eating patterns” with sufficient amounts of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, low-fat dairy foods, and vegetable oils, while limiting consumption of red meats, sugar-sweetened drinks, and sweets, and enhance physical activity. This is the main message of a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association and corresponds word by word to what we tell […]
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13Aug, 2024
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FAT DIFFERENCES

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Fat suffered a bad reputation for a long time and we learned how to avoid bad (saturated and hydrogenated) fats and eat good (unsaturated) ones to keep our heart and arteries healthy. Unsaturated fats (e.g. found in fish, avocado, nuts, sunflower, canola, and olive oils) are preferable to saturated fats (e.g. found in fatty meat, butter, palm and coconut oil, cream, cheese, ghee, and lard).” When calling us on (+351) 21 458 85 00 mention that you have read this article to have even better access conditions.
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9Aug, 2024
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LAUREL DESERVES THE CROWN

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Enjoy your holidays planting your own biologic vegetable garden. Laurel is one of the easiest plants to let grow in your garden, your terrace or in vases in your kitchen, and fresh laurel is much more fun and has much more quality. Laurel’s leaves are used in many recipes, but the most important is they may help to detox our body, delay the ageing process, enhance wounds healing and improve heart health, besides preventing cancer. Laurel’s leaves may also ease digestion and to absorb nutrients from a healthy diet, recommendable […]
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8Aug, 2024
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WHOLE IS GREATER THAN PARTS

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TIP OF THE DAY from our Nutritionist Dr. Tomás Barbosa: The body must be seen as a whole, made of various interactive parts. Vitamins are only exceptionally produced or synthesised by the human body, and so they must be provided to the organism through food or food supplements such as the ones from our Orthomolecular Dietetics. Vitamins are the common factor of the body’s evolution. Consult one of our nutritionists!
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5Aug, 2024
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OBESITY AND JOINTS

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Losing 500 grams may relief your joints up-to 2 kg on each step. If obesity may cause serious injuries to the locomotion system, weight-loss, even if moderate (5 to 6 percent of the body weight) can greatly improve the functioning state of the joints and reduce pain from arthrosis. Here’s one mor reason to lose weight and fat, besides doing physical exercise, but a program customised to your particular clinic condition. The Food Reeducation and Behavioural program and Body Modelling by Clínica do Tempo®, enables to lose weight and fat […]
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31Jul, 2024
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NOT ENOUGH SLEEP ENHANCES THE APPETITE

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A bad night sleep makes us eat more the day after, and to choose fatter food, more sugary and salty to regain energy (calories). So we may say that lack of sleep makes you put on weight. It also reduces the secretion of a hormone, leptine, that balances the energetic needs of our body. Take advantage of your holidays to relax, rest and sleep well. But to control your appetite, lose weight and extra fat, and to model your body, start now your Alimentary Re-Education and Behaviour Program and Body […]
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30Jul, 2024
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BRONZE WITHOUT DANGER

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The main traps of sunbathing are the sunburns due to the UV rays (ultraviolet), but skin ageing also and, on long term, a larger risk of skin cancer. For tanning without danger, it’s better to follow some safety rules. Besides the regular topic use of sun protection lotions, it is convenient to reinforce  the protection capacities of the skin fighting free radicals, molecules which formation is favoured by the UV rays and, accumulating in the organism, accelerate skin ageing and the emergence of cancers and other health issues. A diet […]
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24Jul, 2024
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A LARGE PLATEFUL

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TIP OF THE DAY from our Nutritionist Dr. Tomás Barbosa: If you made a mistake and had a too much large lunch or dinner, make your body work on your behalf. Don’t put yourself to sleep afterwards and instead take a 30-minute walk, at least, to help your body to digest food using it as energy, avoiding this way to be stored as fat. Call our International Call Center (+351) 21 458 85 00, schedule an appointment for a Nutrition Consultation and take a better route in your life.
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24Jul, 2024
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LISTEN TO YOUR NUTRITIONIST

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Nowadays a variety of good foods is available everywhere and at an economical reach of the most. But choosing foods depends of many factors, not only cultural or economical ones, but as well the habits and food preferences, sensitivity, publicity and many others. The majority of people still follow inadequate or imbalanced alimentary regimes, that may lead to a poor or deficient health condition. There is a continuous need to inform on how to use the best foods and do the correct combinations, in order to have a healthful eating […]
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23Jul, 2024
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LOCALISED FAT

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Our treatment is focused on localised fat that cannot be destroyed just with a diet and physical exercise. Someone overweight with extra fat may get very happy after 2 months on a diet, and lots of sweat, if 5 kg were lost. But in reality only 1 kg of fat and 4 kg of lean tissue were lost (muscle, water). When those 5 kg are recovered, what normally happens next, the situation is not the same because truth is that weight loss was totally recovered as fat, resulting 4 kg […]
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