Tightening the Waist Band: Is better regulation needed to reduce harmful practices of the diet industry?

这项研究的目的是提供第一个详细分析的危害饮食业和企业减肥公司和企业结构和监管的作用，在延续和防止损害妇女的健康和福祉。该研究侧重于监管和监管过程，将考虑监管在减少“饮食”行业有害做法方面的作用。饮食业--一个涵盖了一系列促进减肥的公司、产品和服务的术语--已经开发了各种减肥饮食的专门营销，每种减肥饮食都是量身定制的，目的是让女性相信他们的计划最值得她们花时间和金钱。这些容易获得的饮食计划的问题是，要想成功，它们必须每个都显得独特。这通常涉及让人们依赖付费会员资格来“正确”应用计划的做法。现有的研究表明，关于节食建议的监管很少或无效，这会产生不利影响，特别是对女性。因此，这项研究将研究支撑饮食业的企业结构和监管程序，以及在多大程度上优先考虑妇女的健康和福祉。 使用定性，混合方法的方法，这项研究将应用方法和技术，以产生新的和尖端的知识进步，在这一领域。最终，通过结合对监管和监管过程的分析，以及使用饮食行业服务的女性的生活经验，该研究旨在促进女性减肥经历的积极变化，以及她们的健康和福祉。

This research aims to provide the first detailed analysis of the harms of the diet-industry and corporate weight-loss companies and the role of corporate structures and regulation in both perpetuating and preventing harm to women's health and wellbeing. Focusing on regulation and regulatory processes, the research will consider the role of regulation for reducing harmful practices of the 'diet' industry. The diet-industry - a term that covers the range of companies, products, and services that promote weight-loss - has developed specialised marketing of varying weight-loss diets, each tailored to convince women that their programme is most worth their time and money. The problem with these easily accessible diet programmes is, to be successful, they must each appear unique. This often involves practices that make people reliant on paid memberships in order to 'correctly' apply the plan. Existing research suggests that there is little or ineffective regulation around advice in relation to dieting, and this has a detrimental impact, especially on women. Therefore, this research will examine the corporate structures and regulatory processes that underpin the diet-industry and to what extent women's health and well-being is prioritised. Using a qualitative, mixed-methods approach, this research will apply methods and techniques to generate new and cutting-edge knowledge advancements in this area. Ultimately, through combining an analysis of regulation and regulatory processes, and lived-experiences of women who have used diet-industry services, the research intends to contribute to positive changes in women's experiences around weight-loss, as well as their health and wellbeing.