Led by former Marine Colonel Bradley T. MacDonald, 56, Maryland-based Medifast, Inc. is focused on becoming the leader in innovative, great tasting, soy-based medical meal replacement products. MacDonald has successfully repositioned the Company to focus on the growing problem of obesity and the development, manufacturing and distribution of consumable health, disease management and diet product lines under the Medifast brand. The efforts are primarily directed toward penetrating the growing $2 billion meal replacement market.

Medifast's operations are primarily conducted through two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Jason Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Take Shape for Life, Inc.

William Vitale, MD, founded Jason Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 1980. This subsidiary's primary focus is the development, manufacture and distribution of the Medifast program and Medifast products. Medifast is a medically supervised weight loss program, which specializes in multidisciplinary patient education programs and uses the highest quality meal replacements. Medifast offers a wide spectrum of weight management options depending on the amount of weight customers have to lose. The Medifast philosophy is meal replacement. The more meals you replace, the more weight you lose. Unlike other diets, Medifast provides life changing behavior modification programs and products that support customers through weight loss and weight maintenance. The Medifast program teaches people how to lose weight and keep it off for life.

The Medifast brand has been recommended by over 15,000 physicians nationwide and used by more than 1,000,000 customers. Medifast products are manufactured to exacting specifications in our state-of-the-art production facility in Owings Mills, MD. Product labeling, quality control and manufacturing processes and equipment are subject to regulations and inspections mandated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Maryland State Department of Health and Hygiene and Baltimore County Department of Health. Our plant strictly adheres to all cGMP practices and has proudly maintained its status as an "OU" (Orthodox Union) Kosher-approved facility since 1982.