A differentiated product could come out as a clear winner in the crowded weight management health market majorly dominated by Garcinia Cambogia, white kidney bean extracts, green tea extracts etc. Vedic Lifesciences can give your product that advantage through a well-conducted clinical study and its efficient and affordable processes that have helped over 55 nutraceutical companies across the world for the last 12 years

2. Is yourWeight Management Product making these
Health Claims?
 Promotes healthy weight loss and maintenance
 Lowers blood sugar levels and burns fat
 Improves lean mass, reduces fat percentage
 Supports Healthy Cholesterol Levels
 Improves Mood
 Increases Natural energy
 Suppresses appetite
 Increases metabolic rate

3.  Body Mass Index andTotal BodyWater using a Bioelectric Impedance
Analysis Instrument
 Total body composition – Dual-EnergyX-rayAbsorptiometry (DEXA)
 Basal Metabolic Rate – Indirect calorimetry Metabolic Monitor
 Diet management software
 Appetite – Food frequency and appetite questionnaires

4. Gyms
DEXA
Bio Electric Impedance Scales
Diet Record Software
GYM

5.  Collaboration with advanced Fitness
centers having modern equipments and
increase recruitment rate
 Extensive database of volunteer pool with
varied body types like under weight, normal
weight, over weight to obese subjects
 Strong database of healthy volunteers
involved in mild to heavy exercises
 Full time dieticians to ensure standardized
meals / diets for study volunteers
 In-house, customized scales / questionnaires
for weight management products

6. Cost in USA* ($) Cost in India* ($) Cost Saving* (%)
Absorptiometry (DEXA)
Total body composition –
Dual-EnergyX-ray)
500 109 78%
Doctor fees for Basal
Metabolic Rate – Indirect
calorimetry Metabolic
Monitor
400 150 63%
Dietitian fees 300 70 77%
* Costs are only indicative

7.  300 medical universities, over 750 graduate and post-
graduate programs and about 50 million college graduates in
India
 Large patient population that facilitates faster recruitment
 Multi Racial and MultiType patient population
 Low trial cost per patient
 A highly qualified professional medical community
 Global quality hospitals and clinical research facilities
 Highly developed IT and data collection capability
 English is the medium of instruction
 Western trained principal investigators

8.  In India, many studies have shown that the
prevalence of overweight among adolescents varies
between 10% and 30%
 Between 1998 and 2003, India spent Rs 3,750 billion
on treating obesity-related problems
 More than 25% of Indians are overweight
 More than 3% are Obese
>5% of urban adults are obese
>15% of urban children are overweight

9. Vedic Lifesciences is a Research Center serving the
Product Development and Regulatory Submission
needs of healthcare companies since 2000
India
203, Morya Landmark 1, New Link Road,AndheriWest,
Mumbai 400053
Tel.: +91 22 42172300 / +91 22 42025719
USA
16 BarcelonaCircle, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
Tel: 1(650)855-4832
For a Corporate Introduction
bizdev@vediclifesciences.com
www.vediclifesciences.com