Nutrition expert visits Optimal to educate staff on healthy living

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College Park, MD–April 20, 2015—In an effort to underscore the importance of healthy living and staying active, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC (Optimal) encourages its employees to keep moving and provides opportunities for staff to expand their knowledge outside their subject matter. Earlier this year, Optimal held a WalkFit contest, for which groups of staff members “walked” to San Salvador, El Salvador. For over 2 months, participating staff members wore pedometers and competed to get the most steps in the company-wide effort to “walk” 3,155 miles to San Salvador. The winning team received Microsoft Bands to encourage them to stay active and track their progress after the contest concluded.

Another encouraging opportunity comes in the form of a nutrition Brown Bag lecture presented by Dr. Jo Zimmerman, an instructor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and her undergraduate honors student, Jessica Carrignan. Their talk will focus on registered dieticians and why they are an important part of some weight management programs. This talk was Ms. Carrignan’s honors project for Dr. Zimmerman’s class. Ms. Carrignan’s project was developed to complement Dr. Zimmerman’s nutrition information lecture and to clarify the terminology that many find confusing when looking for the right resources.

From her biography in the University of Maryland faculty page: “[Dr. Zimmerman] is an instructor in the Department of Kinesiology. [She] earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from George Mason University, and has held the ACSM Health Fitness Specialist certification since 1996. She has been working in the health and fitness industry for over 20 years and teaching for over 18 years.”

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Optimal Solutions Group, LLC

Founded in 2000, Optimal Solutions Group, LLC is a nonpartisan public policy research and technical assistance firm that stands out for its quantitative expertise and innovative approaches to provide rigorous, data-driven research and technical assistance to government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic foundations. Located at the University of Maryland’s M Square Research Park in College Park, Optimal is a leader in driving real-time public policy research. Optimal has 60+ employees, including multidisciplinary researchers with backgrounds in business, communication, economics, education, health policy, psychology, public policy, sociology, statistics, and urban planning. Optimal has four research centers: Health, Education, Housing, and Workforce Development and Social Policy.