Mediterranean Diet Center - Mediterranean Diet Center

The Mediterranean Diet Centers are model Dietetic Units that treat eating disorders and excess weight through a safe and healthy slimming system. Their ultimate goal is to reduce the obesity rate of adults starting from childhood as well as building a balanced relationship between people and food. The Mediterranean Diet Center adopted the valuable knowledge of centuries of the Mediterranean Diet and adapted it to a modern and organized slimming and care system.
Today, obesity is considered a major medical-social problem in especially developed countries since it is accompanied by morbidity and mortality. The treatment of obesity is often difficult and the results are often disappointing for both the patient and the treating physician. In addition, fluctuations in body weight are an independent predisposing factor of coronary heart disease, reduce the possibility of its stabilization at lower than initial levels, reduce metabolic activity and have tragic effects on the texture of the tissues and the psychological background of overweight individuals. The method applied at the Mediterranean Diet Center begins first with the diagnosis. Each incoming member is subject to a full body composition analysis. Based on the evidence that is investigated and evaluated as well as the history of excess weight and the medical history, the application of the method, based on Cognitive and Behavioral Education, begins.
A key element of the method is that the member concerned is not subjected to the process of special food preparation and weighing or calorie counting, is not cut off from his social life and is not deprived of favorite tastes. What the member is most trained in is to get used to an effective way of daily nutrition, through daily food in normal quantities, taste combinations and a wide variety. The method causes a loss of 4-6 kgr. monthly. In cases of overweight people with special health problems, a general check-up is done and they are under the continuous cooperation of a treating physician and a dietitian. In these cases the monthly loss is reduced. Also an important part of the method is the frequent rechecking of the weight after the end of the program. The method has 100% success.