Weight Watchers ProPoints plan – what’s it all about?

Written by on November 1, 2010 - 106 Comments
Categories: Other Diets

Weight Watchers put out a press release “embargoed to 1st November 2010″. The press release that I saw had two pages – each page looked like it was designed to fold into a two sided postcard. One page was called “The SCIENCE behind the Weight Watchers ProPoints Plan” and the other was called “The Weight [...]

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Weight Watchers works – according to a study funded by Weight Watchers

Written by on July 12, 2010 - 4 Comments
Categories: Conflict, Other Diets

“One pound of fat contains 3,500 calories. To lose 1lb a week you would need to cut out 3,500 calories from your overall weekly nutritional requirements, this equates to needing a deficit of 500 calories a day.”[i] (Zoe Hellman, Weight Watchers dietician) This is the formula believed by Weight Watchers, NICE, the NHS, the Department [...]

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