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Facts and Figures
Clinicians Choice Inc. continues to research the latest in natural, safe and effective solutions to create products to assist their health care provider partners and their patients in overcoming and coping with today's health challenges.
Clinicians Choice Inc. has followed the following trends in general healthcare and weight management to not only create products but to strategically guide and direct the company:
- 2 out of 3 people will die of cardiovascular disease or cancer.
- 150 million Americans take a daily nutritional supplement.
- 80% of adults in the US take vitamin and mineral supplements every day, representing over 100 million Americans.
- In 1997, $27 billion was spent on 636 million visits to complementary and alternative providers of care.
- Soy, rich in phytoestrogen compounds and already said to reduce risk for heart disease and osteoporosis, may help protect against the onset of Alzheimer's disease, especially in post-menopausal women, according to a NIH study presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego.
- A diet rich in soy protein has some of the positive effects of estrogen replacement therapy but without the risky side effects, according to early research from Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati.
- Research found that glucosamine can dull the pain of osteoarthritis - the painful stiffening of the joints that afflicts 21 million, mostly older, Americans - according to a recent Lancet report.
- Approximately 70% of women of reproductive age may not understand the importance of adequate dietary folate in preventing neural tube defects (NTDs) in offspring, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Michigan Department of Community Health.
- The FDA received 470 reports of bad reactions to dietary supplements; the nation's poison control clinics actually treated 13,000.
- Ephedra, an herbal stimulant used by millions of Americans for bodybuilding and weight loss, can cause heart attacks, stroke, seizures and death in otherwise healthy young people, researchers say.
- Three hundred thousand people die each year due to obesity-related causes, making it the second-leading cause of death after smoking. Being overweight or obese increases the risk of hypertension, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers.
- Americans spend more than $33 billion a year on weight-loss products and services. However, that's less than half of the $70 billion estimated annual health-related costs of treating obesity.
- The latest NHANES report on adults found that the number of overweight adults jumped from 55 percent in the 1988-1994 survey to 61 percent in 1999.
- There has been a 58% increase in obesity amongst adults between the ages of 20-40 since 1990.
- A national survey showed that 13 percent of children ages 6 to 11 were overweight in 1999, up from 11 percent in the previous survey, conducted from 1988 to 1994. The number of overweight 12 to 19-year-olds increased from 11 percent to 14 percent.
- By conservative estimates, 25% of prescription weight loss drugs are used by individuals who do not need them, investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
- 12 million Americans annually take ephedra/ma huang for weight loss and muscle building - this is despite numerous cases of hypertension, heart attack, stroke, seizures and 70 known deaths associated with ephedra.
- Excess body weight increases the risk of colon, breast and other cancers, according to a report in the February 1st issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
- Studies show that both calcium and vitamin A have a major impact on body weight and body fat. They recommend that young women who want to lose weight consume about 1,950 calories a day, 5,000 international units (IU) of vitamin A, and 1,000 mg of calcium.
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