Nutrition · FACELAB team
Nutritionist · Portuguese Association of Nutritionists, licence no. 4970N
Nutritionist with an international postgraduate qualification in Clinical Nutrition. She sees patients in Albufeira and Faro, with a personalised plan for each person — from metabolic and women’s hormonal health to sports, maternal and children’s nutrition.
Catarina Afonso
Professional licence
Portuguese Association of Nutritionists — no. 4970N
Education
Degree in Dietetics and Nutrition · International postgraduate diploma in Clinical Nutrition
Languages
Portuguese, English and Spanish
Appointments
FACELAB Albufeira and FACELAB Faro
About
She grew up in the countryside, close to nature and the rhythm of the seasons — seeing how food was grown and harvested, in tune with its seasonality. One of her earliest memories is leafing through her father’s book on healthy eating, before she could even read.
Over the years she came to see the real impact of food on health and illness, on sport and on every stage of life — and that curiosity became her profession.
At FACELAB she combines clinical nutrition with areas she is passionate about, such as women’s health and aesthetic nutrition, in a multidisciplinary team where sharing knowledge across specialties is part of the care. She is always keen to hear the story of each person she sees.
“Do good. It will come back to you in unexpected ways.”
Areas of interest
Assessing and optimising nutritional status, and support for conditions such as excess weight, insulin resistance, diabetes or high cholesterol.
A calmer relationship with food: hunger and fullness, emotional eating and habits that last day to day, without restrictive diets.
Plans tailored to each person’s training and goals — from body composition to recovery and performance — with experience supporting athletes.
Eating to support skin health and aesthetic treatments, and nutritional support for lipoedema, working with the medical team.
Polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, cycle changes and menopause: food as part of the care at every stage.
From preconception to pregnancy and postpartum, and through the first 1,100 days of life — including breastfeeding and starting solids.
Balanced eating while growing up, lunchboxes, picky eating and weight management in children and teenagers.
Background
2026 — present
Physical and body-composition assessments and technical consultancy for a basketball academy, with male and female athletes from under-14 to senior level.
2025 — present
Part of the team since the clinic opened, in the Nutrition service, seeing patients in Albufeira and Faro.
2022 — present
Consultations with personalised plans, multidisciplinary postpartum support programmes (2024), menus and recipe specifications for a nursery, from 4 months to 4 years (2023–2024), and a multidisciplinary cooking and nutrition workshop for healthy longevity (2026).
2023
Universidade Europeia.
2020 — 2021
At the Algarve Food Bank: consultations and dietary advice, implementing the HACCP food-safety system, the Nutrir Todos community project (with the Algarve Regional Health Administration) and a study on food insecurity in vulnerable families, published and presented at a congress.
2020
University of the Algarve.
2018 — 2019
Clinical nutrition at Hospital do Espírito Santo de Évora (inpatients and outpatients) and community nutrition and public health at the Estremoz primary and community care units.
Further training
Scientific publications
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