logging in or signing up A tool to separate the wheat from chaff Malden Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 113 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 04, 2007 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript A Tool to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff: A Tool to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff The Voluntary Guidelines for Providers of Weight Loss Products or ServicesMission: Mission To promote sound guidance to the general public on strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.Partnership Principles: 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 managementPartnership Principles (cont’d): 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 individualsSlide6: 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)Partnership Materials: Partnership MaterialsSlide8: 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. PurposeValue of Guidelines to Providers: Value of Guidelines to Providers Good business practice Increase trust of consumers/users Improve quality of care/treatmentSubscribing to the Guidelines is strictly voluntary: Subscribing to the Guidelines is strictly voluntaryWho Provides the Guidelines?: Who Provides the Guidelines? Commercial weight loss programs Manufacturers of weight loss products and medications Health professional associations Individual professionals Extending the Message: Extending the Message Print media Broadcast media Advertising agencies Public relations agencies Other groups You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
A tool to separate the wheat from chaff Malden Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 113 Category: Entertainment License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 04, 2007 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript A Tool to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff: A Tool to Separate the Wheat from the Chaff The Voluntary Guidelines for Providers of Weight Loss Products or ServicesMission: Mission To promote sound guidance to the general public on strategies for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.Partnership Principles: 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 managementPartnership Principles (cont’d): 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 individualsSlide6: 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)Partnership Materials: Partnership MaterialsSlide8: 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. PurposeValue of Guidelines to Providers: Value of Guidelines to Providers Good business practice Increase trust of consumers/users Improve quality of care/treatmentSubscribing to the Guidelines is strictly voluntary: Subscribing to the Guidelines is strictly voluntaryWho Provides the Guidelines?: Who Provides the Guidelines? Commercial weight loss programs Manufacturers of weight loss products and medications Health professional associations Individual professionals Extending the Message: Extending the Message Print media Broadcast media Advertising agencies Public relations agencies Other groups