NEW YORK (AP) Companies that provide weight-loss products and services are poised to capitalize on growing concerns over obesity, an analyst said Friday as he initiated coverage of Herbalife Ltd. and Weight Watchers International Inc.

Brian Wang of Barclays Capital said in a client note that about 70 percent of the U.S. population is overweight, while the rest of the world is at 25 percent and climbing. With so many people affected by obesity, weight-loss companies have growing potential markets.

Wang, who started both Herbalife and Weight Watchers with "Overweight" ratings, said that the companies' current stock prices don't reflect their full potential. The rating indicates Barclays expects the stocks to outperform.

Herbalife, a nutrition and weight loss company, has benefited from transitioning from selling bulk products infrequently to selling individual servings for a nominal fee on a daily basis, Wang said.

"This has expanded the number of people who can afford its products, increased distributor retention and engagement and driven very strong financial results for the past several years," the analyst wrote.

Wang added that Herbalife's more than 80 markets don't appear to be fully saturated yet, "so we believe it can achieve strong growth for many more years."

Herbalife's stock climbed $3.18, or almost 5 percent percent, to $70.06 in afternoon trading, approaching its 52-week high of $70.35.

Wang said Weight Watchers should be able to grow its business for at least the next several years through such initiatives as international expansion, building up its online business, advertising to men for the first time, developing new products and remodeling and relocating stores.

Shares of Weight Watchers, which is based in New York, added $1.73, or 2.2 percent to $79.42.

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Diet Doc HCG Diet announces new diet doctor managed forum for those on the diet HCG

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Diet Doc is the only modern-day weight loss program in the USA providing medically, supervised weight loss to people nationwide. Diet Doc is a comprehensive, weight loss program which personalizes a diet specific to each persons health history, gender, age and lifestyle. This is how Diet Doc is able to shave 7 pounds per week (on average) reports Julie Wright, president of Diet Doc.

HCG dieters often resort to the Internet for answers to common diet questions. The problem is the Diet Doc HCG Diet protocol, or the individualized diet the weight loss doctors create for each person is not on the Internet. This is why the Diet Doc HCG Diet Forum and Blog is helpful for dieters.

Four years ago, a team of physicians offering the outdated, 1950 Dr. A.T.W. Simeon's HCG diet protocol discovered that muscle loss was occurring in people consuming 500 calories per day. They discovered this when people were analyzed with a body impedance analysis machine that only doctors can buy and use to as a test to analyze cellular health and muscle loss. It was this point, the diet doctors set out to modernize the original, prescription HCG diet.

The Diet Doctors found that it isn't necessary to consume so few calories (500/day). By adding weight loss products, such as weight loss shakes, weight loss oil (used to make salad dressing and cooking), they were able to increase calories substantially, but still realized 7 pounds of weight loss on average per person.

Diet Doc HCG Diet & Weight Loss is often asked for their expert commentary on celebrity weight loss. Refer to Star Magazine, Kim Kardashian published 3/5/2012.

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AT one point during her battle with coeliac disease, Wodonga woman Kerrie Winnetts weight plummeted to a mere 35kilograms.

For more than 25 years she had experienced excessive weight loss and tiredness that was wrongly diagnosed until 2001.

It has taken the past 10 years for her to reach a normal weight and learn to manage the debilitating illness.

I had no energy, I was flat out getting through a day, Mrs Winnett, 51, said.

I lost a lot of weight really quickly, people thought I was anorexic because I was so skinny.

Mrs Winnett was incorrectly diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome and another doctor told her it was all in her head.

My mother had passed away the year before from bowel cancer, we were nursing her, so that was stressful, she said.

I went to the doctor and he said it was in my head and virtually told me to go away.

But a new doctor suspected something more serious.

She thought it was bowel cancer so she sent me for blood tests but it came back with coeliac, Mrs Winnett said.

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Flashback: Lopez vs. Salido I Source: SI Relive the stunning first match between Juan Manuel Lopez and Orlando Salido and prepare for the rematch! Salido vs. Lopez II. Live from Puerto Rico on Saturday, March 3rd at 10PM ET on SHOWTIME.

Juan Manuel Lopez (left) looks to reclaim his featherweight title Saturday against lone conqueror Orlando Salido (right) in San Juan.

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The rise to superstar status can be bumpy, the cliffs steep. Last April, Juan Manuel Lopez was on the cusp of elite status. Fast, good looking with a powerful left hook, Lopez was a rare lighter-weight fighter with potential wide-ranging appeal. He was the unquestioned money man in the 126-pound division; his promoter, Bob Arum, envisioned him fighting fellow prospect Yuri Gamboa in front of a thick crowd at MetLife Stadium.

On his way up, however, Lopez tripped. Facing Mexican bruiser Orlando Salido, Lopez unexpectedly found himself in the middle of a war. He ate a perfectly placed right hand in the fifth round that put him down; in the eighth, with Salido winging punches at him in the corner, the referee stepped in and stopped the fight.

"It was a big shock to me," Lopez said in a telephone interview. "I really didn't think he could beat me. It shook me up."

Lopez says there were reasons he lost to Salido. At the time, Lopez was immersed in a messy divorce with his wife, Barbara, that fractured his focus. He says he was working with a different nutritionist and that he went into the ring feeling heavier, slower than he had felt in any of his previous fights.

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"Everything going into that fight was just wrong," Lopez said. "My mind, my body, everything. I wasn't mentally focused, I wasn't concentrating. And I felt very slow in there. I couldn't make the moves that I should have."

Lopez said he didn't dwell much on the loss ("My family really picked me up," he said), instead becoming determined to avenge it. Last October, Lopez returned to the ring and destroyed Mike Oliver in two rounds. On Saturday night Lopez (31-1) will get his rematch when he challenges Salido (37-11-2) for the WBO featherweight title in San Juan, Puerto Rico (10 p.m. ET, Showtime). It's a fight Lopez didn't necessarily need to get his career back on track, but one he badly wanted.

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04-03-2012 01:52 Because you'll never have enough time for anything unless you make it 🙂 http://www.twitter.com http://www.mszjackiechu.com Also please note that generally speaking I do not respond to diet questions through my Youtube inbox. I already have quite a few videos and I'm pretty confident that I have already answered that question somewhere 🙂 Most the questions I get are really too general, theres no secrets to weight loss. You eat well, exercise, drink water and get your 6 -8 hours of sleep.

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Obese people who go under the knife continue to be seen as lazy and lacking in willpower even after they lose weight, a new study suggests.

Overweight people who drop the kilos using exercise and diet are seen far more favourably.

In a study by the University of NSW (UNSW) School of Psychology, 73 students were shown photographs of an obese woman called "Susan" who had a body-mass index (BMI) of almost 40 - well above the healthy range of 20 to 25.

The students were given her basic biographical information and then asked to rate her personality and behavioural traits.

They were then shown a more recent photograph of a slimmer Susan, with a BMI of just 22.

Some were told Susan had used either surgery or diet and exercise, while others were given no explanation on how she shed the excess weight.

The study's architect, PHD student Jasmine Fardouly, said although the thinner Susan was generally perceived more favourably, those students who were told her new figure was due to surgery judged her more harshly.

"People tend to see an obese person who sheds a lot of weight as someone who eats more healthily, exercises more and is more competent and less sloppy," she said in a statement.

"But that may be because people assume the weight loss was a result of better diet and more exercise."

Ms Fardouly said people had a very different opinion when they were told Susan had opted to go down the surgical road.

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