Your Professional Team

Medifast: Benefit from our best thinking

Weight loss designed, used, and recommended by doctors:

  • Created by William Vitale, M.D. and originally sold directly to doctors
  • Scientifically formulated to be safe, filling, and nutritious
  • Clinically proven to help you lose weight fast
  • Recommended by over 20,000 doctors and used by over a million customers since 1980

Scientific Advisory Board

This cross-disciplinary panel reviews the effectiveness and safety of Medifast products and programs, and assists in developing new ones.

Walter Eugene Egerton III
Chief Medical Officer, Maryland General Hospital

Guy H. Johnson, Ph.D.
President, Johnson Nutrition Solutions, LLC
Executive Director, the McCormick Science Institute

John P. Foreyt, Ph.D.
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Medicine

Debra L. Miller, Ph.D.
Director of Nutrition, The Hershey Company

Lawrence J. Cheskin, M.D., FACP
Director, Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center

Jeff S. Volek, Ph.D., RD
Human Performance Laboratory
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology
University of Connecticut

Sylvia B. Rowe, MA
President, SR Strategy
Adjunct Professor, Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy
Adjunct Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst


Clinical Studies

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Other weight-loss plans can say they're safe and effective, but Medifast has proof.

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Medifast Advantage

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With Medifast Advantage you're entitled to free shipping and free Medifast Meals, plus plenty of other perks!

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