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March 5, 2022 Marketdata’s new report, The U.S. Weight Loss Market: 2022 Status Report & Forecast (March 2022, 90 pp.) has just been released. Major Findings: The value of the U.S. weight loss market is estimated to have declined by a historic 25% in 2020, to $58 billion. as a result of closures of weight loss centers and …
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Dec. 30, 2021 2021 was a historic year for obesity treatment. In June, the Food and Drug Administration approved the weight loss drug semaglutide, which some experts described as a “game changer”. The medication, initially developed to treat Type 2 diabetes, was the first drug treatment to be approved by the FDA for weight management since 2014. Wegovy, …
Sept. 2, 2021 We just discovered two new medical weight loss companies: Options and Calibrate. Options has brick & mortar sites, while Calibrate is a virtual program. Apparently, there’s a lot of venture capital money out there looking for start-ups, and the weight loss space is enticing. Calibrate claims to have raised $127 million from …
March 18, 2021 Marketdata LLC, has just released the new 16th edition of its best-selling report: “The U.S. Weight Loss & Diet Control Market”. This is a 438-page analysis of ALL segments of the market — commercial chains, medical programs, diet foods, soft drinks, meal replacements, diet books, Rx diet drugs, bariatric surgeries, the health …
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March 1, 2021 Marketdata and DietBusinessWatch.com continue to release major findings from its ongoing current research of the weight loss market, contained in our upcoming study; “The U.S. Weight Loss & Diet Control Market”, due out shortly. Based on interviews with management at the major medical weight loss center chains and franchises, Marketdata analysts are …
Jan. 25, 2021 Robard just recently did a webinar featuring Patrick O’Neil at the Medical University of South Carolina. In that webinar, he discussed working with obese patients, and what their program has been seeing, and how they’ve changed their services to adapt to the limitations of the pandemic. This is a multidisciplinary medical weight …
August 6, 2020 “This has been a strong quarter for Medifast, with strong demand and engagement among OPTAVIA Coaches and Clients helping to deliver meaningful revenue growth,” said Dan Chard, CEO of Medifast. “We have more active earning Coaches than at any point in our history, and Coach productivity is up substantially quarter-over-quarter near all-time highs…” “We have …
May 15, 2020 The number of bariatric (weight loss) surgeries performed in the U.S. was up 10.5% in 2018, to 252,000 procedures. Marketdata analysts estimate that this market was worth $6.3 billion, based on the average price per surgery of $25,000. No data is available yet for 2019. The ASMBS (American Society for Metabolic and …
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March 18, 2020 The traditional “diet season” lasts from the last week of December until Memorial Day. If dieters have not reached their goal weight by the Summer, they usually take a break and pick it up in the Fall, or quit altogether. However, this year, with the coronavirus pandemic now in full swing, dieting …
March 9, 2020 Based on our research over the past few decades, only about 3.4% of dieters prefer to visit a physician’s office, hospital or medical clinic for a weight loss program. 80-85% or so use a do-it-yourself program (retail meal replacements, OTC diet pills, online purchases), and the balance use a commercial chain or …
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