About us

WeighYourOptions.com is a joint initiative of the American Obesity Association (AOA) and Allergan, Inc., as part of the “Weigh Your Options” campaign. The goal of this campaign is to educate the public on various weight-loss options including diet and exercise, drug therapy and surgical procedures.

American Obesity Association, founded in 1995, is a non-profit advocacy and educational organization committed to raising awareness about issues surrounding obesity and positioning the condition as a critical disease state. The AOA has worked to expand research on obesity at the National Institutes of Health, where research funding on obesity has increased from approximately $97 million in 1997 to an expected $440 million in 2005. Most recently, the organization has been bringing together pharmaceutical companies and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to set new standards for future drugs to treat obesity.

For more information, please visit www.obesity.org.

Allergan, Inc., the maker of the LAP-BAND® System, is a leader in the treatment of obesity and delivers minimally invasive surgical devices and services to achieve and support sustained weight loss, reduce health risks associated with obesity and ultimately enhance patients’ quality of life.

For more information, please visit www.allerganandinamed.com.

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  How does obesity

  affect Americans?

• Obesity is a disease that affects      nearly one-third of the adult          American population            (approximately 60 million people).

• The number of overweight and          obese Americans has continued to increase since 1960, a trend that continues to increase annually.

• Each year, obesity causes at least 112,000 preventable deaths in the    United States, and the annual     healthcare costs related to the      condition are approximately           $100 billion.