The Future of Weight Management with Stevia, CLA and Satiety Food and Drinks: Regional Diversity

Introduction

Scope

Objectives of global briefing

Key findings

Weight Management and Obesity: Performance and Recurrence

Weight management: Global performance

Weight management: World’s biggest contributors

Global distribution of the overweight and obese population

Average calorie consumption well over the recommendations

“Junk food” leads to obesity

Exercising is good…but it is not enough

Managing weight through dieting

Weight management: Performance in 32 HW countries

Region Focus: Regulation and Case Studies - Europe

Weight Management in Western Europe

Breakdown by categories in Western Europe

European Union: Article 8 for nutrition claims

Art. 8: Nutrition claims and conditions for BFY products “fat”

Region Focus: Regulation and Case Studies - Europe

Art. 8: Nutrition claims and conditions for BFY products “sugar”

EFSA's main approvals/rejections for health claims

Case study: Spain, a market focused on packaged food

Reduced fat dairy products as a national standard

Reduced expenditure per capita due to the financial crisis

Region Focus: Regulation and Case Studies – North America

The weight management market in North America

The FDA approach to nutrition and health claims

US: Conditions for nutrition claims

Nutrition labelling is compulsory in the US

Nutrition Key: US approach to front-of-pack labelling

Case study: The US, where food competes with carbonates

US: Fortified milk for bone health

More obesity but less money spent on weight management

Region Focus: Regulation and Case Studies – Asia Pacific

Weight Management in Japan

Conditions for nutrition claims in Japan: Fat

Conditions for nutrition claims in Japan: Calories and sugars

Weight management in China

Conditions for nutrition labelling in China

Conditions for nutrition claims in China: Fat (part 1)

Conditions for nutrition claims in China: Fat (part 2)

Conditions for nutrition claims in China: Calories and sugars

Case study: China or the weight of reduced sugar beverages

Ready-to-drink teas quench the thirst for weight loss

China: 432 million obese present an untapped market

Nutritional labelling regulations in 27 HW countries (2009)

Outlook

Weight management beverages to recover dynamically

Developing countries to bring the growth

Summary

Appendix

Report parameters

Data Parameters and Report Definitions

Health and wellness category definitions

Health and wellness product coverage

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