PureCircle Joins Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation

The group aims to provide and promote solutions that will help people achieve a healthy weight by balancing the calories they consume with the calories they burn.

13 Apr 2010 --- PureCircle, the world's leading producer of naturally zero-calorie sweeteners, including stevia-derived Reb A, announced that it will formally launch its effort to help reduce obesity in the United States by joining the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation (HWCF).

A first-of-its-kind endeavor, the HWCF involves the collaboration of more than 40 members of the food and beverage industry, retailers and diverse non-governmental organizations. The group aims to provide and promote solutions that will help people achieve a healthy weight by balancing the calories they consume with the calories they burn. The HWCF's efforts will help provide people with the tools to achieve energy balance. These efforts will focus on three key areas: the marketplace, the workplace and schools.

"Now more than ever, businesses, schools and communities are demanding convenient, more appealing ways to manage calories," said Magomet Malsagov, CEO and Managing Director of PureCircle. "As the global market leader in stevia production for the last decade, PureCircle is uniquely positioned to help these groups cut calories in the products they manufacture, serve and buy. Our company is proud to be the first of its kind to join the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, and we look forward to working to reduce obesity by 2015."

Stevia was first included in tabletop sweeteners and beverages, and has quickly made its way into other categories because of its ability to naturally reduce calories. Thirty-five countries across six continents have now launched a stevia-sweetened product.

"We are pleased that PureCircle has joined the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation," said Lisa Gable, Executive Director of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. "We look forward to working with them as they help consumers achieve lifelong healthy habits through balancing calories in and calories out."