ABSTRACT
There is a huge weight-loss industry beckoning your daughter even as you read these words, offering packaged deals and promises it can't keep. Easy, affordable solutions are promoted but with no guarantee or proof of success. And we keep buying them, to the tune of $33 billion in 1990 alone. 38 Recent studies cited in Diane Epstein and Kathleen Thompson's book, Feeding on Dreams, indicate that:
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Four out of five people who sign up for weight-loss programs will not stay long enough to lose any significant amount of weight. Of those who do lose weight, only one out of 10 keeps the weight off for two years.39
