268 billion dollars
The weight management market is currently worth 268 billion dollars, and that is just in the United States. Worldwide, the number comes out to be around 4 trillion. The weight loss industry is a scam. If anyone suggests weight loss to you, especially and including your doctor, they are essentially prescribing to you something that fails 95% of the time. Of the 5% of people who are able to keep the weight off for more than 5 years, a significant portion of them have eating disorders, which are life-threatening. Studies done about illnesses connected to higher weights fail to recognize the effects of weight cycling and are often biased and funded by the weight loss industry. If a doctor was trying to prescribe you something that failed 95% percent of the time and could potentially kill you, would you take it? Would they even be allowed to give it to you without risking a malpractice sanction/lawsuit?
The fast food industry is worth $273 billion in the US as of 2019
