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Diet plans may come and go, but Weight Watchers is for ever. Now even the NHS can't get enough of it. As the organisation celebrates its 50th anniversary, Charlie Cooper asks, just what is it doing so right?
There's no point denying it any more ? we are a nation of fatties. Two thirds of English men are fat. Considerably more than half of English women are fat. A third of little boys and nearly a quarter of little girls in England are fat. Just under two-thirds of adult Scots and well over half of Welsh adults are ? you guessed it ? fat.
By fat, read overweight or obese ? or a body mass index over 30. The NHS keeps tabs on these things because they predict that a tidal wave of heart disease, cancer and other health problems associated with being overweight will hit Britain over the next generation.
It was perhaps not surprising then, that a few years ago, doctors turned to a new ally in their war on our expanding waistlines. Weight Watchers ? best known to many for those rather kitsch 'before and after' adverts, usually featuring the happy weight watcher posing inside extraordinarily large trousers ? is starting to be taken seriously as a cure for obesity.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...s-nhs-approval-for-its-diet-plan-8523097.html
Not really a 'cure', is it? I do wish they'd stop using that word incorrectly! 🙄
There's no point denying it any more ? we are a nation of fatties. Two thirds of English men are fat. Considerably more than half of English women are fat. A third of little boys and nearly a quarter of little girls in England are fat. Just under two-thirds of adult Scots and well over half of Welsh adults are ? you guessed it ? fat.
By fat, read overweight or obese ? or a body mass index over 30. The NHS keeps tabs on these things because they predict that a tidal wave of heart disease, cancer and other health problems associated with being overweight will hit Britain over the next generation.
It was perhaps not surprising then, that a few years ago, doctors turned to a new ally in their war on our expanding waistlines. Weight Watchers ? best known to many for those rather kitsch 'before and after' adverts, usually featuring the happy weight watcher posing inside extraordinarily large trousers ? is starting to be taken seriously as a cure for obesity.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...s-nhs-approval-for-its-diet-plan-8523097.html
Not really a 'cure', is it? I do wish they'd stop using that word incorrectly! 🙄
