Teaming Up For Healthy Weight Loss
How Bad is the Weight Problem?
* 80% of American adults over the age of 25 are overweight.
* The number of obese American adults has risen approximately 50% subce 1998.
* 300,000 deaths each year in the United States slone are associated with obesity.
* Scientists and doctors agree that being overweight significantly increases the risk of serious chronic diseases such as diabetes, hpyertension, and stroke.
* Consumers spend about $60 billion every year on weight loss.
* The economic cost of obesity in the United States was over $100 billion in 2000.
* Dangerous surgeries, such as gastric bypass or Lap-Band surgery, can cost up ti $25,000,yet tens of thousands of desperate people have them each year.
* According to a Johns Hopkins study, by the year 2048 100% of American Adults will be overweight.
Learn what you can do to miss being a statistic now or later.