Weight Watchers

Get your flex point calculators and food scales! This week, Mike and Aubrey are talking about one of America's most iconic diet programs: Weight Watchers. Along the way, we encounter The Rock, the mating habits of straight people and a new James Bond villain.

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Links!
• Jean Nidetch, a Founder of Weight Watchers, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com/2015/04/30/business/jean-nidetch-d…)
• Mass Firing on Zoom Is Latest Sign of Weight Watchers Unrest (nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/weight-watcher…)
• Weight Watcher's Kurbo app slammed for targeting kids. Makers defend it (usatoday.com/story/life/parenting/2019/08/23/w…)
• What's gone wrong at Weight Watchers? (bbc.com/news/business-47392730)
• Weight Watchers Is Offering Teens Free Memberships and People Aren't Happy (teenvogue.com/story/weight-watchers-teens)
• Americans’ new way of losing weight has left Weight Watchers behind (washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/10/29…)
• How the Oprah effect helped Weight Watchers regain Americans' trust (theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/08/weight-wa…)
• Deal Master Debbane (forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/12/20/deal-m…)
• The Population Cost‐Effectiveness of Weight Watchers with General Practitioner Referral Compared with Standard Care (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.2…)
• Weight Watchers on prescription: An observational study of weight change among adults referred to Weight Watchers by the NHS (link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2458-11…)
• The Problem With 'Fat Talk' (nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/the-peri…)
• 'Fat Talk' Compels but Carries a Cost (well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/fat-talk-com…)
Thanks to Ashley Smith (cosmicbigfoot.com) for editing assistance and Doctor Dreamchip (freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip) for our lovely theme song!
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