medical
nutritional institute
we are a healthcare organisation that specialises in the prevention and treatment of disease.
Latest press releases
MUST READ! Weight loss - practical steps to ensure success.
Key points:
* Strategy delivers better weight-loss results than effort.
* Each kilogram of weight lost will increase your life expectancy and reduce your healthcare costs. [more]
The placebo effect. Any place left in weight-loss?
Over the past decade, researchers have published hundreds of new studies on various topics relating to weight-loss. What’s exiting about the flood of new studies is that in many arenas
conventional wisdom is being challenged. [more]
Food pollution – how even a savvy shopper gets tricked!
* Without knowing it you are frequently duped when buying food
* Fast food portions are now five times as large as they were 20 years ago. [more]
To the LightHouse – an innovative strategy for addressing obesity.
The worldwide increase in weight gain and obesity is having a major impact on personal health, putting individuals at greater risk for conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. However, the obesity epidemic also has some ominous implications for the workplace. [more]
Lowering your cholesterol - the ultimate anti-ageing strategy.
With nearly 200 South Africans dying every day from cardiovascular disease, modern-day thinking around cholesterol management is that we’ve been doing “too little too late”. [more]
Stress: are you taking it seriously enough?
The Medical Nutritional Institute (MNI) is encouraging all South Africans to make 2011 a mentally healthy year by taking a much more proactive stance to managing stress levels. [more]
The year I got my life back into shape
Two years ago, 45 year old software designer Jacques Theron realised he was dangerously overweight and needed to do something about it. [more]
Upgrading your mind
Psychologists are historically focused on ways to elevate a patient's negative mental state from minus five to zero, for example, with zero considered the benchmark of 'normal'. A modern scientific ambition is to elevate one's state of mind from zero to plus five. [more]
Breast cancer versus heart disease. Woman perilously misguided!
With one in four South African women developing some form of heart condition before the age of 60, many women don't seem to realise that they are nine times more at risk of developing a heart condition than breast cancer. [more]
Complimentary medicine: what’s the harm?
The use of complementary medicines continues to rise, yet many consumers are being duped into buying products that are not only ineffective, but also potentially harmful. So what should South Africans be doing to protect their health and wallets? [more]
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