Medifast

This are not medifast shakes, but something similar

Many people ask what Medifast is, as if it were a special kind of diet. First of all, it is an Chinese/multinational Pre-Insurance examination provider, with presence as well in Malaysia, Singapore and Canada. They own the medifast.com domain.

Medifast is also a Diet Company which manufactures low calories prepared food as shakes, bars, puddings, oatmeal, soups, drinks, scrambled eggs, etc. They announce that you will lose an average of 2-5 pounds per week, but they don’t say during how many weeks. They also have products with caffeine “to cut hunger and boost metabolism”.

You can order the products “on line” but there is not information about the labels of the products. As I haven’t bought anything from them I cannot tell you if you will finds these labels on the boxes.

They recommend getting medical advice in case you have any health dysfunction. As you never know the problems you may have, the medical advice should be asked in any case.

Optifast is something similar manufactured by Nestle.

Cambridge Diet is another type of diet products, mostly shakes, nothing to do with the University of cambridge.

vlcd means “very low calorie diet”

Don’t forget ask for medical advice before starting one of these programs as medifast!