No matter what products they introduce or new spokesmen they put in commercials, diet companies are facing two major obstacles. One is growing competition from digital upstarts that give away their products for free, and the other is the age-old problem that people typically fail to keep off the pounds and eventually quit dieting. George Blackburn, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Nutrition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is quoted.
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