Regulating Commercial Weight-loss Programs - Editorial, CMAJ

Regulate them?

"The commercial weight-loss industry is big business in North America, and the $50 billion industry should be regulated to safeguard people's health, write Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, Dr. Arya Sharma and the CMAJ editorial team http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg367.pdf. Despite expert agreement that obesity management requires long-term behavioural, medical or surgical interventions, many commercial weight-loss programs create impossible expectations and false beliefs."

Right idea, wrong implementation.

First, put the industry players out of business.

Second, sue them.

Third, put the experts who are in "agreement that obesity management requires long-term behavioural, medical or surgical interventions," out of business, since "medical or surgical interventions" are unnecessary.

Fourth, sue them.

Fifth, feel satisfied that at least somethings have been done to resolve the problem of overweight/obesity.