Nutritional Health UnitAchieving and maintaining a healthy weight in the long term can be a challenge for many people. Overweight and obesity are complex health conditions influenced by metabolic, hormonal and lifestyle-related factors.
At the Nutritional Health Unit at Hospital Ascires, we take a comprehensive, personalised approach to overweight and obesity, aiming to improve your health, body composition and quality of life.
Our multidisciplinary team works together to design the most appropriate treatment for you, helping you achieve effective, sustainable and long-lasting results safely and healthily.
Multidisciplinary team
At the Ascires Nutritional Health Unit, nine specialist departments work together to provide comprehensive care for every patient with overweight or obesity.
Comprehensive treatments for overweight and obesity
At Ascires, we personalise every weight management programme according to each person’s needs and clinical requirements.
Advanced medical technology for maximum precision
At Hospital Ascires, we use state-of-the-art medical technology to tailor nutritional, exercise and pharmacological recommendations as precisely as possible, providing highly personalised programmes.
DEXA body composition scanning provides a precise analysis of body composition, including:
This information allows us to objectively monitor your progress throughout the programme.
This test accurately measures your resting energy expenditure, helping us personalise nutritional recommendations and tailor treatment to your body’s actual energy requirements.
Exercise testing with gas analysis allows us to objectively assess your functional capacity and how your body responds to physical activity.
The results help us design a personalised and safe exercise programme tailored to each patient’s cardiovascular fitness and functional capacity.
Bariatric Surgery in Valencia
Bariatric surgery is one of the most effective treatment options for selected patients. At the Ascires Nutritional Health Unit, we perform procedures such as sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass, as well as offering non-surgical alternatives such as the intragastric balloon.
All options are assessed individually and supported by coordinated multidisciplinary follow-up to maximise results and help maintain them in the long term.
Doctors and Healthcare Professionals
Dr Emilio Veintimilla is an endocrinologist at Ascires, with experience and specific training in andrology.
Specialist in Clinical Nutrition and head of the Nutrition Unit at Ascires, expert in body composition assessment and nutritional support...
Dr. María del Mar Contell is a specialist in Family and Community Medicine, specialised in microbiota and women’s health at...
More than 7 years of experience as a pulmonologist, which he combines with his medical work in the Emergency Department...
Dr Angélica Aponte is a specialist in Family and Community Medicine at Ascires. She has extensive experience in General Medicine...
Dr Isabel Merí is a physician specialist in Psychiatry at Ascires. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2018 and...
Dr Aragon Gawinska has been a neurologist at Ascires since 2024. She graduated in Medicine from the Medical University of...
19 years working in cardiology departments at public and private centres at national and international level, with specific training in...
16 years working in cardiology departments at public and private centres, with extensive dedication to Cardiac Imaging (Cardiac MRI and...
Medical Director of the Ascires Group and Head of the Cardiology Department, with 30 years of national and international experience...
Extensive clinical and research experience in Cardiology Departments at national and international hospitals (Switzerland and Germany). Her research career has...
