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The History of Medifast

Although the Medifast Diet has been in existence since 1980, the knowledge and experience behind the concept of this meal replacement program goes as far back as 50 years. Medifast is owned by Jason Pharmaceuticals, Inc. of Owings Mills, MD and was originally founded by William Vitale, MD.

In the earliest days of Medifast, the program consisted of primarily shakes and bars developed as soy-based medical meal replacement products. Today the program includes many other types of food products including soups, puddings, oatmeal, and a variety of hot and cold drinks. Until recent years you could only start the Medifast Diet through your physician. These days anyone can discover the diet's magic power for rapid but healthy weight loss and life-changing weight maintenance.

Medifast has been recommended by over 15,000 physicians and used by more than one million customers. Clinical tests for over eight years have been conducted to prove the diet's successfulness at John Hopkins University Weight Management Center in Baltimore, MD. In clinical studies conducted by Johns Hopkins, males lost an average of 67.41 pounds and females lost an average of 47.5 pounds after being on the Medifast program for only 16 weeks. Researchers concluded that the Medifast weight loss program provides a safe, effective means of weight reduction and are accompanied by significant improvements in coexisting health problems.

The Medifast philosophy is simple meal replacement. Unlike other diets, Medifast provides life changing behavior modification programs and products that support their customers through weight loss and into weight maintenance. The Medifast program teaches people how to lose weight and keep it off for life. That is why the diet is more successful for significantly overweight people like me, because the longer you are on the diet, the more you learn about healthy eating habits, meal preparation, portion control, nutrition information and weight management.

So now that we know the history of the Medifast Diet, we can now eliminate any fad related misinformation about it, right? :)

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