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Most health advice was not built
for our communities.

The Problem We Are Trying To Solve

The nutrition advice was designed for and from  Western populations. The meal plans use foods you have never cooked. The portion guides make no sense for the way your family eats. The doctor gave you a leaflet with nothing to do with your life. You are not imagining it.

Chronic disease is the defining health crisis of our time โ€” and people of African heritage bear a disproportionate and largely unaddressed burden. Maitano was built to change that.

54%

142%

142%

of adults across parts of Africa affected by hypertension โ€” with only 7% having it controlledvisit.

142%

142%

142%

projected increase in diabetes in Africa by 2050 โ€” the steepest rise of any global region.

73%

142%

10+

of adults living with diabetes in Africa remain undiagnosed, per IDF Diabetes Atlas 2024

10+

142%

10+

African immigrants with 10+ years in high-income countries show significantly higher rates of hypertension and diabetes

The problem is not the culture. Traditional African diets are metabolically protective. The problem is the absence of guidance that works within the culture.

Our Founder

The Person Who Built This For You

Maitano is not a faceless platform. It was built by one person โ€” a Zimbabwean-American dietitian with over 25 years of practice, board certification in lifestyle medicine, and a medical research scientific advisory role โ€” who came back to the community that is truly who she is. 


CREDENTIALS

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B.S. Nutritional Sciences 

Califfornia State Los Angeles, USA
๐ŸŽ“
M.A. African Area Studies ยท Public Health

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
๐Ÿ…
Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)
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Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine

American College of Lifestyle Medicine & International Board of Lifestyle Medicine
๐Ÿ…
Certified Diabetes Lifestyle Coach
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Media Spokesperson 

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (2017-2022)

CNN. New York Times. Washington Post. EatingWell. Healthline. Radiant Health Magazine. Medical Scientific Advisory  Role 2025

About Maitano Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine

Our History

Eighteen years. A community. A purpose.

Early in her career Cordialis worked directly with the patients in American  hospitals, providing nutrition guidance and building nutritional programs. After losing her mother to complications of high blood pressure, she steered her attention to African families and diaspora communities in the United States navigating chronic illness and seeking better health. That work launched everything. For eighteen years she built The African Pot Nutrition โ€” serving the community, building clinical expertise, and earning the trust that Maitano is built on.one of the most trusted healthcare providers in the area.

Transforming Lives Through Health

When food alone was not enough

In those sixteen years Cordialis saw something that changed how she understood health entirely. She saw people with genuinely excellent diets not getting better. Blood pressure still elevated. Metabolic markers not moving. Not because the food advice was wrong โ€” but because sleep, stress, movement, and connection were being left completely unaddressed.

"

That realisation that sometimes it is not the food is why I became one of the first health leaders in this space to pursue board certification in lifestyle medicine. I needed the science to address the whole person."


Cordialis Msora-Kasago, MA, RDN, DipACLM/IBLM

About Maitano Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine

Institutional work โ€” and the call home

THE TRANSITION

For several years Cordialis moved into contracted work with organisations and companies โ€” bringing culturally grounded nutrition and lifestyle medicine into institutional settings. Important work. But a different kind of work. And something kept calling her back. The community. The people this was always meant to serve.

Maitano is that homecoming. Not a rebrand. A return to purpose.

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