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A Tool to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff
The Voluntary Guidelines for Providers of Weight Loss
Products or Services
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Mission
To promote sound guidance to the general public on strategies for achieving and
maintaining a healthy weight.
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Partnership Principles
• Sensible and healthy guidelines
• Obesity is a serious disease with far-reaching health implications
• Excess weight is caused by a complex set of factors, and must be approached as such
• Sedentary lifestyle is a barrier to healthy weight management
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Partnership Principles (cont’d)
• Calorie balance (calories in versus out)• Modest weight loss can reduce severity of
illness• Weight management involves lifetime
behavior modification• Medical, pharmacological, and surgical
interventions may be appropriate for some seriously obese individuals
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• Consumers are entitled to accurate, reliable, and non-deceptive information about weight management methods
• The Partnership opposes discrimination, including that based on size or weight
• The Partnership does not endorse any particular products or programs
Partnership Principles (cont’d)
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Partnership Materials
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To encourage any provider of weight management services or products to provide accurate, objective information to consumers so that consumers can select a safe and effective method.
Purpose
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Value of Guidelines to Providers
• Good business practice
• Increase trust of consumers/users
• Improve quality of care/treatment
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Subscribing to the Guidelines is strictly
voluntary
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Who Provides the Guidelines?
• Commercial weight loss programs• Manufacturers of weight loss
products and medications• Health professional
associations• Individual professionals
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Extending the Message
• Print media
• Broadcast media
• Advertising agencies
• Public relations agencies
• Other groups