HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-6 July 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Diet Trends in the United States 2008(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Diet Trends in the United States 2008" report to offerings.

This report focuses on diet trends among adults. The report answers the following questions:

- How do respondents assess their current weight and eating habits?

- Which of 19 current diets are they following, which are they adapting to their own needs, which have they abandoned, and which have they not even heard of?

- What are the three most popular diets, and how are many respondents currently following them?

- What motivates respondents to diet?

- How do they feel about their current dieting strategies?

- What are their attitudes towards dieting, at home and in restaurants?

- How are diet food sales doing? What new products are being launched?

- And what advertising strategies help promote them?

Companies Mentioned:

- Weight Watchers International Inc.

- Slim-Fast Foods Company

- Atkins Nutritionals

- Jenny Craig Inc.

- NutriSystem

- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

- Wal-Mart Stores (USA)

- Food and Drug Administration

- LA Weight Loss Centers

- Kraft Foods Inc. (U.S.A.)

- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

- Unilever USA

- Wells' Dairy

Report information:http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c77b17/diet_trends_in_the

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