BALTIMORE, Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Medifast (NYSE: MED), the worldwide firm behind one the fastest-growing well being and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, hosted its third annual Wholesome Habits For All® Week Monday, Sept. 20 via Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. Wholesome Habits For All Week is devoted to serving to underserved communities across the globe undertake wholesome habits via improved training and expanded entry to assets.
The occasion kicked off close to Medifast headquarters in Baltimore, MD, on the East Harbor campus of the corporate’s long-time native companion, the Residing School rooms Basis. Worker volunteers assembled back-to-school baggage containing water bottles, bounce ropes, faculty provides, a kid-friendly wholesome recipe and extra supplies for 250 metropolis college students. Volunteers closed out the day by distributing donated Chromebooks to college students enrolled within the Baltimore City Gardening with College students (BUGS) afterschool program, offering crucial entry to know-how that permits college students to adapt to altering environments all through the college 12 months.
“Wholesome Habits For All aligns who we’re as an organization with how we give again, constructing on the affect our Coaches make each day,” stated Dan Chard, Chairman and CEO of Medifast. “By initiatives like Wholesome Habits For All Week, our Neighborhood is ready to develop our mission to much more folks. In collaboration with our native, nationwide and worldwide nonprofit companions, Wholesome Habits For All equips these in want with transformational instruments that help the well being and wellness of in the present day’s kids in addition to generations to come back.”
This 12 months’s Wholesome Habits For All Week additionally supported nonprofits close to the corporate’s Asia-Pacific workplaces via volunteer tasks and No Child Hungry®, a company working to finish baby starvation in America, via ticket gross sales of an unique digital cooking class with celebrity chef Fabio Viviani. The restaurateur and TV host was joined by OPTAVIA Co-founder and impartial OPTAVIA Coach Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen for the occasion. The charismatic pair led OPTAVIA Coaches and Shoppers via two unique OPTAVIA Lean & Green recipes and answered questions from the Neighborhood in the course of the “Cook dinner For A Trigger” occasion. To this point, in partnership with No Child Hungry, a marketing campaign by Share Our Energy, Medifast and the OPTAVIA Neighborhood have raised over $900,000, which might help present as much as 9 million meals to children in want*.
For extra info on Medifast or OPTAVIA, go to Medifastinc.com or OPTAVIA.com.
*Meal equivalency varies throughout COVID-19 reduction. Be taught extra at NoKidHungry.org/OneDollar
About Medifast®:
Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the worldwide firm behind one of many fastest-growing well being and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which provides scientifically developed merchandise, clinically confirmed plans and the help of Coaches and a Neighborhood to assist Shoppers obtain Lifelong Transformation, One Wholesome Behavior at a Time®. Primarily based on greater than 40 years of expertise, Medifast has redefined direct promoting by combining the most effective features of the mannequin. Its neighborhood of impartial OPTAVIA Coaches has impacted 2 million lives and teaches Shoppers find out how to develop holistic wholesome habits via the proprietary Habits of Well being® Transformational System. Medifast is traded on the New York Inventory Alternate and ranked second on FORTUNE’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2020. The corporate was additionally named to Forbes’ 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America list in 2017. For extra info, go to MedifastInc.com or OPTAVIA.com and comply with @Medifast on Twitter.
SOURCE Medifast
