With some smaller community hospitals, a diet program can mean the difference between profit and loss.

It's a great diet program, win the lotto and lose weight.

Most diet programs don't include an increase in activity, which is vital to staying at a healthy weight.

Those taking part in the diet program met recently to review their progress before many of them were to leave on vacation.

Some diet programs cost money over and above what you pay for food.

"Molly," he said at our first meeting four weeks ago when I met him and began his diet program.

You should check with your doctor before starting any diet program.

And those increases came during a time, industry officials say, when fewer Americans are participating in organized diet programs.

Consider that in 1992, Americans will spend an estimated $36 billion on diet programs and products alone.

This article will help you pick a diet program.