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2008-09-04 BBC NEWS Health Popular diets no health threat

Popular diets no health threat

However, despite the fact that all of the diets apart from Atkins advise people to increase their fruit and vegetable intake, the researchers found that the only dieters to do so were those on the WeightWatchers diet, and even they only had one more portion a day.

Heather Caswell, a nutrition scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation, said: "It is a shame that the diets did not result in an increase in the fruit and vegetable intakes of the subjects, however the fact that subjects lost weight will reduce their risk of many risk factors for diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and also certain cancers.

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Popular diets do help people lose weight - and do not cause nutritional deficiency, research finds. - BBC News BBC News news online world uk international foreign british online service

2008-09-04 Bosses hire Weight Watchers diet police to stop office workers piling on the pounds Mail Online

I am overweight, yet, strangely enough, I have never in over twenty three years of working taken a day off sick. I attended weightwatchers. I found the entire thing creepy, horrendously expensive (they pried a tenner out of my wallet each time I went) the only pounds I really lost being the ones that vanished from my wallet, with very little to show for it at the end. I didnt go back after I had spent nearly 70 to no effect. Whereupon I was bombarded with cards about going back to them, which arrived every week for about three months. Weightwatchers may work for some people, but it didnt work for me, and I found the high pressure sales techniques annoying.

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The days of passing biscuits and cakes around the office could be numbered under a new scheme to help employees lose weight at work. - Bosses hire Weight Watchers diet police stop office workers piling pounds

2008-09-04 Robert Kelly: A gift for the tummy , Salem, MA

The key to my recipes is an invention of Weight Watchers - the Giant Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream Bar. Now, most of you have found out that ice cream substitutes are usually for the birds. But this bar is an exception; it has legitimate chocolate flavor and its size is impressive.

Spasmodic success was always followed by devastating failure. After years of effort, I was down to the "Ws" and joined Weight Watchers. My confidence was nil and skepticism high as I listened to the leaders optimistic spiel.

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2008-09-04 Charm City Moms: Pork Chops with Rosemary-Wine Sauce - A blog for Maryland parents by The Baltimore Suns Kate Shatzkin

Pork chops are an easy way to get there. This recipe from a recent Weight Watchers cookbook comes together quickly. And if the wine sauce scares you for the kids, just leave it off for them.

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2008-09-04 News - Weight Watchers launches dietary programme for the workplace

Employees working at firms that take on the Weight Watchers at work programme will be given advice on healthy eating at classes held during their lunch hour or immediately after they finish work.

Employers that have signed up so far, include Waitrose that provides a Weight Watchers club for employees at its head office in Bracknell.

Weight Watchers plans to offer its dietary services in the workplace so that employees can be helped to shed weight and adopt a more healthy lifestyle.

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Weight Watchers plans to offer its dietary services in the workplace so that employees can be helped to shed weight and adopt a more healthy lifestyle. . - Employee benefits employees benefits employer benefits weight watchers health and wellbeing waitrose

2008-09-04 People get their nutrients on diet plans: study Health Reuters

They found that all four diets led to weight loss but that only people on the Weight Watchers plan boosted the amount of fruit and vegetables they ate even when the plans advised them to do so.

LONDON (Reuters) - People on the Slim Fast Plan, Weight Watchers Pure Points Program and two other popular diets get enough nutrients even though they are eating less, researchers reported on Wednesday.

There was no significant difference between the diets in how much weight people lost, Helen Truby of Royal Childrens Hospital in Australia and her British colleagues reported in Biomed Centrals Nutrition Journal.

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LONDON (Reuters) - People on the Slim Fast Plan, Weight Watchers Pure Points Program and two other popular diets get enough nutrients even though they are eating less, researchers reported on Wednesday. All - Commercial services and supplies (industry group) Industrial machinery Machinery Western Europe Europe Online Report text item Personal services Non cyclical consumer goods United Kingdom

2008-09-04 Overweight urged to drop pounds, help feed the hungry Lifestyle Reuters

Kirchhoff got the inspiration for the program when he visited a local chapter of Weight Watchers in Seattle last year. The coordinator at the chapter encouraged clients to save a pound of food at home for every pound they lost.

I love the fact that we will able to contribute up to usd. 1 million" to these groups, said David Kirchhoff, president and CEO of Weight Watchers International.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life. ) - Want to drop those excess pounds and help a worthy cause Now, losing weight can improve someone elses life as well as your own.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Life. ) - Want to drop those excess pounds and help a worthy cause Now, losing weight can improve someone elses life as well as your own. Weight Watchers is kicking off a program that - Living and lifestyle Commercial services and supplies (industry group) Industrial machinery Machinery Online Report text item Personal services Non cyclical consumer goods Leisure facilities Personal

2008-09-02 Community Briefs Times-News Online Hendersonville, NC

For every pound lost by Weight Watchers Members in Hendersonville and across the country, Weight Watchers will donate the cost of one pound of food up to one million dollars. The six-week campaign kicks off on Sunday, Sept. 7, and ends . The funds will go to two hunger-fighting organizations: Share Our Strength, which works to make sure no child in America grows up hungry, and Action Against Hunger, which helps feed people in troubled parts of the world. These organizations will use the funds to enhance existing programs.

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2008-09-02 Laboratory Informatics - the collection and manipulation of separation science data

The best type of calibration utilises polymer chains of known molecular weight, but these are not available for many polymers. Otherwise techniques such as light scattering and viscometry have to be used. These assess SEC properties that are only indirectly related to polymer molecular weight and therefore require a number of assumptions to be made, introducing a major source of potential error.

This means that a single polymer sample will actually contain polymer chains of varying lengths and therefore also varying molecular weights. Thus the polymer sample will possess a certain molecular weight distribution, reflecting the range and concentrations of the different length chains, with a wide range of chain lengths resulting in a large MWD.

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2008-08-30 Imposing a fat tax is not the way to a healthier society - MarketWatch

I dont think people choose to be overweight like they choose to smoke. I think if they knew better, they would get healthier. Thats why its so important to include exercise and health education in health plans. (To its credit, Alabama is offering Weight Watchers and YMCA discounts to help people get in shape and avoid the penalty. )

Alabama, which has the second highest obesity rate in the country behind Mississippi, has a point: Obesity is a sickness and plagues a majority of U. S. adults. Indeed, 64 pct. of the U. S. adult population is considered obese, which is defined by measuring body mass, a relation of height and weight: a BMI over 30 is considered obese.

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Alabama is considering levying a tax on overweight people. Its being dubbed a fat tax. The description is none too kind -- but neither is heart disease nor any of the ailments that go along with being obese. - News and Commentary Commentary Thomas Kostigens Ethics Monitor