For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a huge summer event where teams dress up in crazy costumes and race boats on Lake Champlain as a way to fund raise for cancer efforts.

Despite the gloomy weather forecast, thousands of dedicated spectators showed up bright and early to the event. The 75 teams made up of businesses, families, and organizations throughout the community came ready to race their hearts out. Even as the storm clouds came through, the racers pushed on with energy and excitement up until the festival was inevitably cut short. More details about the festival can be found at http://www.ridethedragon.org/.

This year, Vtrim sponsored the athletes village, the area where each team could set up a tent and use a staging area, stretching space, and where other sponsors set up shop. As a sponsor, we were also featured on all of the pendants throughout the village.

Let us just say that in a nutshell, the energy and excitement that was in the air that Sunday was inspiring!  It was truly amazing to see so many people supporting cancer survivors, cancer research and most of all Camp Te Kum Ta (half of this years profits went to the camp http://www.takumta.org/).  Vtrim was  honored to be a featured sponsor at this event, which emphasized fitness, fun, and philanthropy all at the same time.  Check out our photos and let us know if you were there!  We would love to hear about your experience.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/vtrim/

Vtrim, a University of Vermont program, is in good company with this list. Duke University, University of Alabama and the University of Colorado were also featured. All of these universities are home to obesity research programs that inform their community offerings. Jean Harvey-Berino, PhD,RD Chair of Nutrition and Food Sciences at UVM and Vtrim Founder has been conducting behavioral weight loss research at UVM for the last 17 years. Of those 17 years, the last 11 have focused on delivering weight loss and weight maintenance treatment over the internet. This research formed the basis of the Vtrim online program which is now available nationally. Our online program differentiates us from the others in this article because we have removed the need to be local to a university in order to receive high quality research-based weight loss treatment. Participating in a highly successful and clinically effective program is now only as far away as your nearest internet connection!

You can check out the article by following this link (Vtrim review begins on page 4):

Vtrim Featured in Prevention Magazine