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Originally Posted by liamona  I think lots of people are simply looking for non-medical alternatives to good health, and the best place to find that information is from other people, especially those long-time posters on forums who are intelligent and thoughtful. |
That may be true on this forum.
However, when I reviewed the marketing data, it seemed to indicate that most of that healthcare/weightloss/fitness money was spent relating to losing weight. For example, the company "Weigh Watchers" which holds weekly meetings for people to weight themselves and talk about their losing weight made $900 Million dollars in 2008 simply from meeting dues for their weekly meetings held worldwide. Over a million people on average attended each weekly meetings all over the world in 2008.
This is completely separated from their Weight Watchers branded products that they sell in stores (They only make $300Million or so from that).
Oh, and the website weightwatchers.com makes a lot of money too from people who subscribe to the online meetings that they pay for. If I remember correctly, it was like $60Million+ for 2008.