Americans spend more than $50 billion on weight loss products and programs. Recent statistics show that 61% of adult Americans are overweight. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than a third of adults, 35%, are slightly or moderately overweight, and more than a quarter of Americans, 26%, are considered obese.
"High carbs-lowfat" diet, "low carbs-high protein" diet--what's a food formulator to do? While the food industry has spent a great deal of time and money developing non-fat and lowfat foods and a variety of fat replacers, clearly these are not helping Americans to control their body weight.