Slide 1: Helping Consumers Choose a Safe and Effective Weight Management Program
The Wacky World of Weight Loss
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Slide 2: Sleep...and lose weight in just a few nights...you eat what ever you want... 5 pounds lost every night...
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Slide 3: 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
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Slide 5: More than one in three Americans are trying to lose weight!
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Slide 6: The Paradox
• 64 percent of Americans are overweight or obese
(National Center for Health Statistics, NHANES, 1999-2000)
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• Up nearly 10 percent from just a decade ago!
(NHANES III, 1988-1994)
Slide 7: Keeping it off…
For many, most weight regained within five years
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Slide 8: Consequences of Adult Obesity
• Psychosocial • Cardiovascular
– – – – – Hyperlipidemia Diabetes mellitus Hypertension Respiratory Cardiac
• Medical
– Polycystic ovary disease – Gall bladder disease – Osteoarthritis – Cancer
• Pregnancy and postpartum depression • Mortality
Slide 9: Cost of Obesity
Obesity-related health care costs = $117 billion in 2000
Slide 10: Why the increasing epidemic?
Slide 11: Voluntary Guidelines for Providers of Weight Loss Products or Services
Developed by The Partnership for Healthy Weight Management
