NutriFit has signed an agreement to provide meals for an NIH-funded clinical feeding study at Emory University School of Medicine focused on nutrition and heart health. Meal production is scheduled to begin in January 2027.
It is an important milestone for NutriFit. For me, it is also deeply personal.
My father died of heart disease at 47.
His death profoundly affected the direction of my life. When I founded NutriFit in 1987, I did so with the belief that good nutrition could help people live longer, healthier lives—and that more families might be spared the pain of losing someone far too soon.
That belief became the foundation of our company.
For 39 years, we have translated nutrition science into meals for people working to improve their health, manage complex dietary needs, recover from illness and regain strength.
Now, our team will bring that experience to preparing meals according to the requirements of a clinical feeding study. Chef Oscar and our culinary team have devoted considerable time to developing the menu and documenting its ingredients and quantities to support the researchers’ work.
I am proud that NutriFit has developed the knowledge, systems and culinary discipline required to contribute to this effort. But what moves me most is the connection to why I started.
The company that began, in part, because I lost my father to heart disease will now provide meals for research examining the relationship between nutrition and cardiovascular health.
We do not yet know what the study will find. What we can contribute is the care and precision we bring to preparing the food.
This is why I started NutriFit. Thirty-nine years later, it is still why we do what we do.