Many Consumers, Experienced in Making Weight Loss Choices, Continue to Make Bad Ones.
"People who have unrealistic notions about how much weight they can lose or can keep off over time can face devastating blows to self-esteem when they experience repeated failures. When they start out with unrealistic expectations, they may then choose methods that are either unproven or over-hyped."
-Remarks of Dean Graybill, Associate Director, Division of Service Industry Practices, Federal Trade Commission |
On October 16-17, 1997, representatives from academia, government, the weight loss industry, and consumer advocacy groups met in Washington, D.C. for a conference -- “Commercial Weight Loss Products and Programs -- What Consumers Stand to Gain and Lose.”
The conference was conceived as a coordinated effort by all concerned groups to better understand the problem and to explore ways to improve the information that consumers routinely receive about the nature of obesity and weight loss products and programs. And out of it came the guideline below. For A Thin You! Physician-Supervised Weight Loss refers to this guidelines, among others, to develop our policies and documents.
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