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