Weight Watchers Lose More Weight?

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Weight Watchers Lose More Weight? Posted: 08 Sep 2011 05:46 AM PDT A study (sponsored by Weight Watchers) recently published in the respected Lancet journal shows that dieters that are members of a weight loss program lose twice as much weight as those on standard health care: The new research compared 772 overweight and obese adults in Australia, Germany and the U.K. Participants were randomly assigned to receive either 12 months of standard health care or a 12-month free membership to Weight Watchers. Read more… The findings make sense. Weekly group meetings create a support and encouragement system that helps motivate people more than occasional visits to a doctor or government sponsored programs. In the study, those on Weight Watchers lost 11 lbs after one year, compared to a mere 5 pound weight loss by a control group. What you need to know: The problem is that most people on diets put the weight back on after a year. Or two. Or five. In fact, it is estimated that 85-95% of all dieters end up regaining all the weight loss within 5 years! Depressing, right? The Weight Watchers program, which indoctrinates people to count calories with a proprietary point system (called Points Plus), really wants people to lose weight, and has set up the a support systems to help. So what is the problem? Perhaps partly to blame it is the type of food that dieters are consuming when on the points system. People on the Weight Watchers plan search for low point foods at the grocery store. The correlation with low calorie foods is usually very high. As a result, many "diet" foods and beverages are consumed. Including many "Weight Watcher" branded products, such as the "Smart Ones" line. As we've written in the past, these tend to be highly processed, fat removed, fake fillers and preservatives added foods. Even Weight Watchers is ashamed of their products' ingredients. How do we know? They are nowhere to be found on the product pages of the Weight Watchers website. We would encourage Weight Watchers to review their point system. Currently it looks only at fat, carbs, protein, and fiber. Not at the ingredients comprising the product. And we all now how easy it is to game the nutrition facts label to make a processed foodlike substance seem healthy… What to do at the supermarket: It's not enough that a product has a low points value or is low in calories. You MUST read the ingredient list to verify that you are not consuming a fake food. Get Fooducated: iPhone App Android App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate

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