A Vision for the Future

The Surgeon General identifies the following activity as national priorities for immediate action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity:

Educate health care providers and health profession students in the prevention and treatment of overweight and obese patients.

Financial Markets Focus on Weight Loss Treatment

• Credit Suisse (June 26, 2008) in a report called "Obesity and Investment Implications". People across the globe are becoming obese and overweight very fast and in response, corporate awareness of obesity-related markets is increasingly pronounced, the report says.
• The investment bank expects companies in the weight loss field to experience outsized revenue and earnings growth over the foreseeable future.

Jacob Goldstein, How to Get Rich Off the Global Obesity Boom (last modified June 26, 2008)
<http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/06/26/hot-to-get-rich-off-the-global-obesity-boom/>.

"Potential Patients Spend Over $150 Million Every Day Trying To Lose Weight"

Consumers spend more than $150 million every day on diets and weight loss programs. Americans are the most obese people in history and the problem is getting worse, not better.

Medically Supervised Weight Loss for Physician Practices and Hospitals

An effective and profitable medically supervised program specifically for physician practices and hospitals to treat obese and over-weight patients

66% of the physician's patients and the hospitals' patient base require this treatment.