Helping Consumers Choose a Safe and Effective Weight
Management Program
The Wacky World of
Weight Loss
Sleep...and lose weight in justa few nights...you eat whatever you want...5 pounds lost every night...
Sleep...and lose weight in justa few nights...you eat whatever you want...5 pounds lost every night...
Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
Costs of Overweight/Obesity• $37.1 billion consumer costs to
lose/maintain weight
• Growing at a rate of 6 to 7 percent a year
More than one in three Americans are trying to lose weight!
The Paradox
• 64 percent of Americans are overweight or obese (National Center for Health Statistics, NHANES, 1999-2000)
• Up nearly 10 percent from just a decade ago! (NHANES III, 1988-1994)
Keeping it off…
For many, most weight regained within five years
• Medical– Polycystic ovary disease– Gall bladder disease– Osteoarthritis– Cancer
• Pregnancy and postpartum depression
• Mortality
• Psychosocial
• Cardiovascular– Hyperlipidemia
– Diabetes mellitus
– Hypertension
– Respiratory
– Cardiac
Consequences of Adult Obesity
Cost of Obesity
Obesity-related health care costs = $117 billion in 2000
Why the increasing epidemic?
Voluntary Guidelines for Providers of Weight Loss
Products or Services
Developed by The Partnership for Healthy Weight
Management