This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you appreciate the content here, please consider supporting the newsletter by subscribing and/or sharing! In 2018, Weight Watchers changed its name to “WW” added the tagline “wellness that works” and started using language about “health” and “wellness” and “beyond the scale.” Per a Fast Company article this happened because “In this new era of body image acceptance and feel-good wellness communities, Weight Watchers learned that the term “diet” was rife with negative connotations.”
Note: this thread has been moderated. I know that a number of people, including doctors, have been deeply misled about Weight Watchers' purpose and failure rate, but this is not a space in which I will allow that misinformation to be stated as fact. If you want to learn more about what the research shows about Weight Watchers "success" rates, I recommend these posts:
It’s probably not by accident that the rebrand to their initials only sounds like a subliminal command every time anyone reads or says it: “Double you, Double you.”
Note: this thread has been moderated. I know that a number of people, including doctors, have been deeply misled about Weight Watchers' purpose and failure rate, but this is not a space in which I will allow that misinformation to be stated as fact. If you want to learn more about what the research shows about Weight Watchers "success" rates, I recommend these posts:
https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/weight-watchers-long-term-research
https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/does-this-study-really-show-how-to
If you believe that I am ignoring research about the so-called "health consequences" of being higher-weight, I suggest these as starting points:
https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/doesnt-being-higher-weight-create
https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/reader-question-what-does-it-mean
It’s probably not by accident that the rebrand to their initials only sounds like a subliminal command every time anyone reads or says it: “Double you, Double you.”