Diabetes-friendly menu endorsed by Mafraq Hospital is launched across all Millennium & Copthorne’s MENA hotels in recognition of region-wide health issue
Millennium & Copthorne, one of the world’s largest hotel companies with more than 120 owned and managed hotels across 20 countries, has today rolled out across its hotels in Middle East a menu specially developed by the group in collaboration with Mafraq Hospital. The new hospital-approved menu was offered in bite-sized taster portions to invited guests and passers by at a launch event at Porto Bello restaurant at Grand Millennium Al Wahda. These tasters included a choice of starters, main courses and deserts.In 2009, six out of the world’s 10 countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes were in the Middle East and North Africa*. Millennium & Copthorne has worked with diabetes experts from Mafraq Hospital to create a menu that is both tasty and nutritionally balanced, which helps those with diabetes control blood glucose levels, blood fats, and blood pressure. The dishes on the diabetes menu are first added to the room service menu and the buffet. The second phase will see diabetes-friendly options being developed for all of the group’s restaurants.In 2009, six out of the world’s 10 countries with the highest prevalence of diabetes were in the Middle East and North Africa*. Millennium & Copthorne has worked with diabetes experts from Mafraq Hospital to create a menu that is both tasty and nutritionally balanced, which helps those with diabetes control blood glucose levels, blood fats, and blood pressure. The dishes on the diabetes menu are first added to the room service menu and the buffet. The second phase will see diabetes-friendly options being developed for all of the group’s restaurants.
