BALTIMORE, Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
Medifast (NYSE: MED), the global company behind one the
fastest-growing health and wellness communities,
OPTAVIA®, hosted its third annual Healthy
Habits For All® Week Monday,
Sept. 20 through Sunday, Sept. 26,
2021. Healthy Habits For All Week is dedicated to helping
underserved communities around the globe adopt healthy habits
through improved education and expanded access to resources.
The event kicked off near Medifast headquarters
in Baltimore, MD, at the East Harbor campus of the company's
long-time local partner, the Living Classrooms Foundation. Employee
volunteers assembled back-to-school bags containing water bottles,
jump ropes, school supplies, a kid-friendly healthy recipe and
additional materials for 250 city students. Volunteers closed out
the day by distributing donated Chromebooks to students enrolled in
the Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students (BUGS) afterschool
program, providing critical access to technology that allows
students to adapt to changing environments throughout the school
year.
"Healthy Habits For All aligns who we are as a company with how
we give back, building on the impact our Coaches make every day,"
said Dan Chard, Chairman and CEO of
Medifast. "Through initiatives like Healthy Habits For All Week,
our Community is able to expand our mission to even more people. In
collaboration with our local, national and international nonprofit
partners, Healthy Habits For All equips those in need with
transformational tools that support the health and wellness of
today's children as well as generations to come."
This year's Healthy Habits For All Week also supported
nonprofits near the company's Asia-Pacific offices through volunteer
projects and No Kid Hungry®, an organization
working to end child hunger in America, through ticket sales of an
exclusive virtual cooking class with celebrity chef Fabio Viviani. The restaurateur and TV host was
joined by OPTAVIA Co-founder and independent OPTAVIA
Coach Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen for
the event. The charismatic pair led OPTAVIA Coaches and
Clients through two exclusive OPTAVIA Lean & Green
recipes and answered questions from the Community during the
"Cook For A Cause" event. To date, in partnership with No Kid
Hungry, a campaign by Share Our Strength, Medifast and the
OPTAVIA Community have raised over $900,000, which can help provide up to 9 million
meals to kids in need*.
For more information on Medifast or OPTAVIA, visit
Medifastinc.com or OPTAVIA.com.
*Meal equivalency varies during COVID-19 relief. Learn more
at NoKidHungry.org/OneDollar
About Medifast®:
Medifast (NYSE: MED)
is the global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and
wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which offers
scientifically developed products, clinically proven plans and the
support of Coaches and a Community to help Clients
achieve Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a
Time®. Based on more than 40 years of experience,
Medifast has redefined direct selling by combining the best aspects
of the model. Its community of independent OPTAVIA
Coaches has impacted 2 million lives and teaches Clients how to
develop holistic healthy habits through the proprietary Habits of
Health® Transformational System. Medifast is traded
on the New York Stock Exchange and ranked second
on FORTUNE's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in
2020. The company was also named to Forbes' 100 Most
Trustworthy Companies in America list in 2017. For more
information,
visit MedifastInc.com or OPTAVIA.com and
follow @Medifast on Twitter.
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