The company estimates that the diet industry will be $58.7 billion this year.

"Now the rest of the diet industry has to come up with this kind of information."

The diet industry has been subject to minimal regulation by Federal agencies.

Q. Do you think the diet industry exploits fat people?

I'm hoping to prove that someone who hates the diet industry can reach a weight at which they personally feel healthy.

If dieting worked the diet industry would run out of customers.

It seems like the diet industry though - when one exploitation is confronted, the producers simply move on to another.

The result is that the Chinese are importing eating disorders and creating a diet industry.

She also says that the diet industry is increasingly trying to concentrate on minorities.

"The diet industry is a $33-billion-a-year business with a 98 percent failure rate," she said.