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My\u00a0dislike\u00a0is the\u00a0multinational organisations taking money and breeding dependence from the unsuspecting public who are quite simply just looking for help with weight loss.<\/p>\n
Weight Watchers wins because they are able to make you a “customer for life”.<\/p>\n
Did you read the article in\u00a0The Guardian<\/i>\u00a0recently, by Susie Orbach on this subject?\u00a0It’s a brilliant read in full, but I’ll bring it to you in brief today.<\/p>\n
This shows that Weight Watchers isn’t about weight loss. Weight Watchers is about money. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Proof of that is right here.<\/div>\n
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Susie Orbach<\/i> writes that recently shares in Weight Watchers increased by 70% following its purchase of Sequence, a US service linking patients with doctors who prescribe semaglutide medications, which suppress appetite for weight loss.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
97% of dieters regain everything they have lost within 3 years. This almost guaranteed failure brings almost guaranteed repeat custom.<\/div>\n
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A parliamentary analysis in 2012 found that Weight Watchers\u2019 appeal is based on evidence showing a modest weight loss of up to 10% of body weight can be achieved. \u00a0But sadly weight loss oike this, through calorie restriction, \u00a0is unsustainable. \u00a097 people in 100 will need help again within 3 years.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Susie Orbach<\/i> goes on to say that semaglutide (brandnames Wegovy and Ozempic) can be useful. It suppresses appetite and could make a real difference for some people. But it only works as for as long as you take the drug. It’s a sticking plaster covering crucial related issues.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The real issues are –<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\n- Causes of \u00a0food cravings.<\/li>\n
- Complex psychology of dress size.<\/li>\n
- Emotional dilemmas for people of either reaching, or not<\/u> reaching their Goals.<\/li>\n
- Education around appetite, eating when hungry, foods to satisfy hunger, and how to stop eating \u00a0when you are full.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\u201cEating with one\u2019s hunger, and being conscious enough to stop when one is full, is hard to do in our culture where food is sold as aspirational and is designed with the precise amounts of salt, sugar or fat to hit what\u2019s called the \u201cbliss point\u201d, not nutritional values.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
It’s a TRAGEDY<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Disordered and troubled eating is a tragedy for individuals, families and the NHS.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Eating and food can occupy minds from the moment you wake up in the morning to last thing at night – as you lie awake for being “bad”, vowing to do better then next day.<\/div>\n
Eating can be considered a fault, criminal \u00a0– even a “sin”.<\/div>\n
Overweight is frowned upon by societies norms.<\/div>\n
Actual “health” is given a back seat.<\/div>\n
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Horribly, all of this is seen as a cash cow – an attractive growth industry \u00a0– for large scale investment.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Overeating and undereating will continue to make money.<\/div>\n
Actual health of body and mind take a back-seat.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Weight Watchers and all within the diet industry benefit if you become a partner for life.<\/div>\n
Weight Watchers win financially when you fail.<\/div>\n
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Surely if their products worked really well, and obesity were to disappear. they’d become redundant. \u00a0 And there’s “fat chance” of that.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Article by
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