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November 22 2012

Jennie Sjöberg from the Mandometer Clinic in Alingsås speaks about eating disorders.
Time: Dec 6, 6-8 PM
Place: Floda, Sweden

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November 12 2012

Cecilia Bergh is one of the speakers at the Global Forum 2012 - Shaping A Connected Digital Future,
in Stockholm.
November 12-13.

Read more at:
globalforumblog.com

October 26 2012

School children at risk of losing control over body weight.
Mandometer researchers examined how 11-13 year old children eat their school lunch. Although the lunch break is 45 minutes long, the children have so little time to eat their lunch that they eat almost twice as quickly as they would normally do. The shortage of time makes children eat in a manner similar to that of obese patients and patients with eating disorders. The school lunch must be scheduled to allow the children time enough to eat their lunch in a relaxed manner, or they might lose control and develop health problems.

Open access to the paper:
"Children eat their school lunch too quickly: an exploratory study of the effect on food intake." BMC Public Health

October 26 2012

Annie Lööf, Swedish Minister for Enterprise,
and her advisors Andres Strömberg and
Hans Dahlgren visited Mando Group AB on October 24.
Mandometer methods for control of body weight and their scientific basis were reviewed and the Minister met with healthy people who had been treated with Mandometer. The Minister herself also got the chance to eat using Mandometer!

October 22 2012

Swedish Minister for Enterprise,
Annie Lööf will visit Mando Group in Sweden.
October 24, 2012, 10.30 a.m.
Photo Credit: Kristian Pohl

To sweden.gov.se

October 18 2012

10 year anniversary at Mando!
In October 10 years ago, an in-patient ward was launched at Mando, all patients can now be treated, including the most severely ill. Mandometer treatment starts already at the in-patient ward with criteria for how patients shall improve before they continue as out-patients. The treatment has improved, the patients do not need to be tube fed and ineffective drugs are gradually removed.

September 3 2012

Filippa Reinfeldt, Catarina Andersson-Forsman, Torbjörn Rosdahl and Hans-Erik Malmros of Stockholms City Council visited Mando Group NY.

They were provided with an overview of the Mandometer Treatment and of a review of the possibilities for export of Swedish medical services to the US.

August 27 2012

Stockholm County Commissioner of Health Care,
Ms Filippa Reinfeldt and colleagues will visit
Mando Group NY.

September 3, 2012, 2:p.m.
Show program; "A Safe Alternative to Surgery for Obese Adults and Children"

July 5 2012

Mandometer researcher participated at 2nd International Conference on Food Oral Processing - Physics, Physiology, and Psychology of Eating. 1-5 July 2012. Beaune, France.

There was a considerable amount of interest in Mandometer methodology and many contact were taken with researcher at the nearby Institute du Gout in Dijon, the biggest laboratory for food research in Europe.

June 29 2012

Radio Sweden broadcasted an interview with Josefine who says she would not have been alive today without the help of the Mandometer Clinic.
To sverigesradio.se

June 19 2012

Cecilia Bergh was invited to talk at the Employers Group of the European Economic and Social Committee thematic meeting on cooperation in the Baltic Sea region entitled "The Baltic Sea Region and Business, a Model for European Macro Regions?" on 14th-15th June 2012.
To eesc.europa.eu

June 12 2012

Cecilia Bergh was one of six speakers when Vinnova together with Samhällsförlaget launched the book "Forskning - till vilken nytta" ("Research - to what use"). Her talk was entitled "Vad ska vi med forskning till?" ("What do we need research for?").
Watch her talk at youtube.com
To Vinnova.se

May 25 2012

To va.se

May 21 2012

Mandometer Researchers solved the Obesity Problem
While it is easy to lose some weight, it is virtually impossible to keep it off. Australian researchers (1) have figured out why. Obese patients dieted for eight weeks and, as expected, they lost some weight. At the same time, however, ghrelin, a hunger hormone, increased and PYY, a satiety hormone, increased in their blood. These hormonal changes persisted over more than a year and this is why people who are on a diet feel hungry all the time. To prevent obesity, these hormonal changes should be targeted, suggested the Australians.

Mandometer researchers (2) solved the problem because the hormonal changes that put you at risk are prevented if patients learn to eat using Mandometer.
Using Mandometer is easy and has no unwanted side effects. Quite the opposite, you regain control over your hormones and lose weight without feeling hungry!

1. Sumithran P, Prendergast LA, Delbridge E, Purcell K, Shulkes A, Kriketos A, Proietto J. Long-term persistence of hormonal adaptations to weight loss. N Engl J Med 2011;365:1597-604.
2. Galhardo J, Hunt LP, Lightman SL, Sabin MA, Bergh C, Södersten P, Shield JP. Normalizing eating behavior reduces body weight and improves gastrointestinal hormonal secretion in obese adolescents. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012;97:E193-201.

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May 18 2012

Mandometer Researcher at Dutch Doctoral Thesis Defense
Per Södersten, director of R&D at Mando Group, was one of the opponents at a PhD thesis defense at Wageningen University in Holland on May 2. The thesis explores how the characteristics of food affect the way you eat and the findings may contribute to a solving the obesity problem. The defense of a doctoral thesis is more of a festivity in Holland than it is in Sweden.

April 12 2012

Visiting Bristol on 26-30 March, Mando Staff taught nurses how to use Mandometer to manage obese children and their family in the comprehensive study which starts shortly. A large group of enthusiastic researchers, including a dietician, an economist, medical doctors, psychologists, and a statistician, is engaged. The study aims at implementing Mandometer in primary care.
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Mars 12 2012

Dr. Cecilia – an example of translational research – is described in the latest issue of Swedish VinnovaNytt.
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Februari 29 2012

"Stop! You are eating too fast!"
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet writes about both our method and Mary Stahl-Brolén who is a patient at the Mandolean Clinic.
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To aftonbladet.se

Januari 18 2012

"Research, enterprise and success"
Cecilia Bergh is interviewed by Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.
To entreprenorskapsforum.se

Januari 4 2012

Our work with obese children and their families is generating media attention.
Show the cartoon published in DailyMail
Read the newspaper articles in our Media archive

December 29 2011

H.R.H. Prince Daniel's visit to our New York clinic is featured in Svt's program entitled "The year with the Royal Family".
Go to Svtplay.se

December 26 2011

A news editorial about our obesity treatment was aired on Swedish Tv4 News.
Go to Tv4play.se

November 29 2011

Per Södersten will lecture at the Läkartidningen symposium on
Obesity treatments.
Sophiahemmet, Stockholm.
Wednesday December 7 at 5.30 p.m.
More information and registration

November 13 2011

Cecilia Bergh is invited to talk at the Medeon Life Science seminar in Malmö.
Her talk is entitled "You are not what you eat, but how you eat"
Tuesday November 15 at 4 p.m.
To www.Medeon.se

November 11 2011

Per Södersten guest lectures at Scandinavia’s largest health fair.
November 11 at 6 p.m.
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To www.alltforhalsan.se

November 1 2011

H.R.H. Prince Daniel, visits Mando Group and Lenox Hill in New York.
1 November 2011, 2.30 p.m.

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October 7 2011

Ioannis Ioakeimidis defends his doctoral thesis "Eating, Chewing and the Mind" Section of Applied Neuroendocrinology, Karolinska Institute.

October 6 2011

Record breaking attendance at this year’s science seminar at the Gothenburg Book Fair, where Mando participated.

To www.Forskartorget.com

September 20 2011

Tuesday 4 Oktober 4, 12.10 p.m. at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö.
Cecilia Bergh will take part in "Café Entrepreneur" at "Eget Företag", theleading Nordic exhibition for starting and developing new companies.

To entreprenör.se

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September 7 2011

Mandometer® received the Healthcare Technology Acceleration Award in 2011 from the California HealthCare Foundation, Booz Allen Hamilton and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

In the picture, Professor Michael Leon,
UC Irvine.

August 30 2011

Sweden’s social minister Göran Hägglund and his State Secretary Karin Johansson visited the Mandometer Clinic in Stockholm.
They heard the patients’ own stories on getting healthy by learning how to eat and even experienced first hand eating using the Mandometer. Case Managers and researchers also provided information about the organisation and discussed with the Minister plans on how others could become healthy thanks to Mandometer.

August 2011

Mando will take part in the science section of the Göteborg Book Fair.
September 24, 15.35.

Till www.forskartorget.com

August 2011

An article about the Mandometer Clinics was published in the newspaper Alingsås Tidning.

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August 2011

A prize for scientific merit of a project given by the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology has been given to professor Julian Shields for Mandometer Treatment. In 2008 he was awarded by BUPA for best clinical trial (Mandometer).

June 2011

Per Södersten was presidential keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology on June 23-26 in Queretaro, Mexico.

His talk was entitled: "Translating behavioral neuroendocrinology into clinical practise and explained the scientific basis for Mandometer treatment of underweight and overweight patients."

January 29 2011

Cecilia Bergh is interviewed in the online magazine E24.
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January 2011

An article with professor Per Södersten is published in SIL - Skandinavisk sjukvårdsinformation.
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October 13 2010

We celebrate our Grand Opening of the
new clinic in New York City with special guests and members of the Stockholm headquarters.
www.mandonyc.com

October 13 2010

NY1 health and fitness reporter Kafi Drexel visits our Manhattan facility.
Watch the news report here

September 17 2010

Cecilia Bergh, CEO of Mando Group, was interviewed in the Swedish newspaper "Entreprenör".
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June 2010

BBC aired an editorial about our treatment.

The segment is available in
our Media archive

January 17 2010

Our treatment is getting attention in Swedish media.

Professor Per Södersten and a patient, in an interview aired on Swedish radio, P4 Extra Söndag. (Only in Swedish)
Go to SR.se
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Watch a news editorial about the Mandolean® method, aired on Swedish TV, Rapport. (Only in Swedish)
Go to Svt Play
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January 06 2010

British Medical Journal Reports Innovative Swedish Program For Treating Childhood Obesity; Program for Control of Body Weight Opens in New York in April
New York, N.Y., Jan. 6, 2010 – The British Medical Journal released today a report on a study conducted in Bristol, United Kingdom, that found that a breakthrough Swedish program using a computerized device called "Mandometer®" was significantly more successful than standard treatment at helping obese children and adolescents lose weight, reduce meal size and decrease their body fat.

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Read the teaser in the printed version(pdf)