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WW International, Inc., formerly Weight Watchers International, Inc., is a global company headquartered in the U.S. that offers weight loss and maintenance, fitness, and mindset services such as the Weight Watchers comprehensive diet program. Founded in 1963 by Queens, New York City homemaker Jean Nidetch, WW's program has three options as of 2019: online via its mobile app and website, coaching online or by phone, or in-person meetings. In 2018, the company rebranded to "WW" to reflect "its development from focusing on weight loss to overall health and wellness." Company history Inception Weight Watchers was conceived by Jean Nidetch, a housewife and mother living in Queens, New York City, who had been overweight most of her life and had tried pills, hypnosis, and numerous fad diets, all of which only led to regained weight. In 1961, at the age of 38, she weighed 214 pounds and an acquaintance mistook her for being pregnant. She entered a free 10-week weight-loss program sponsored by the New York City Board of Health's obesity clinic. The program was called the "Prudent Diet" and had been developed in the 1950s by Dr. Norman Jolliffe, head of the board's Bureau of Nutrition. The plan included the dictums "No skipping meals. Fish five times a week. Two pieces of bread and two glasses of skim milk a day. More fruits and vegetables." and eating liver once a week. It prohibited alcohol, sweets, and fatty foods, included a list of allowed foods and the quantities allowed, and encouraged weighing portions. Although Nidetch lost 20 pounds on the ten-week program, she did not like the way the clinic's leader imparted information at the weekly meetings. Discussion was discouraged; in addition, Nidetch's motivation was threatened by her urge to binge on Mallomar cookies. She therefore began a weekly support group in her apartment, initially inviting six overweight friends, which within two months grew to 40 women each week. She introduced the "Prudent Diet", a single page from the New York City Board of Health, to her fellow weight-loss seekers, and the group provided empathy, rapport, mutual understanding, support, and sharing of stories and ideas. The meetings also included a weekly weigh-in, and Nidetch developed a rewards system including prizes for weight-loss milestones. In October 1962, Nidetch achieved her target weight of 142 pounds, and maintained the weight loss; according to her she never exceeded 150 pounds thereafter. As interest grew, Nidetch coached groups in other neighborhoods. One group was at the home of Al and Felice Lippert, and after the Lipperts successfully lost weight, Al, who was a businessman in the garment industry, talked Nidetch into making a business out of her endeavor. Launch, IPO, and sale to Heinz Nidetch and the Lipperts launched Weight Watchers Inc. in Queens in 1963 with Nidetch as president and evangelist. They rented public meeting venues and charged participants $2 per weekly meeting; the first official meeting, in May 1963, attracted 400 attendees. Nidetch led groups and trained others to lead groups as well. Al Lippert, in charge of the business end of the company, franchised it in 1964, using a razor/razorblade model of an inexpensive franchise fee offered to graduates from the company's programs who had kept the weight off, with 10% of gross earnings as royalties to the parent company. By 1967, the company was international, with 102 franchises in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Great Britain, and Israel. Felice Lippert was in charge of recipe development, nutrition, and food research; the first Weight Watchers cookbook, published in 1966, sold more than 1.5 million copies. By January 1968, the company had more than one million members worldwide, and, with the help of Matty Simmons' and Leonard Mogel's Twenty First Century Communications, Inc., Weight Watchers Magazine was launched, publishing 300,000 copies of its first issue. By 1968, the company had 91 franchises in 43 states, and to expand further overseas Al Lippert took the company public as Weight Watchers International Inc.; the initial 225,000 shares, offered at $11.25 a share, began trading enthusiastically, rising to over $30 by the end of the first day. Lippert also initiated lines of Weight Watchers prepared food, spas, camps for overweight kids, and weight-loss products such as scales and travel kits. Nidetch, with her slim, well-dressed image, charisma, and flair for motivational speaking, remained the public face of the company. In 1970 she published The Memoir of a Successful Loser: The Story of Weight Watchers, which documented the original Weight Watchers plan. In 1973 she resigned as president of the company to devote herself to public relations – traveling, being interviewed, and speaking to large audiences about the program's success. In the mid-1970s, the company moved away from simply dieting and more toward "eating management", developing tailored options to meet the varying needs of its members, including a specialized food plan for the management of weight-loss plateaus, and a maintenance plan. In 1975, the publication of Weight Watchers magazine was taken over by Family Media (the publishers of Family Health magazine). By the late 1970s, the company and its operations and divisions had grown too large and complex for Lippert to manage, and it was sold, along with its food licensees, to the H. J. Heinz Company in 1978 for $72 million. Lippert remained chairman and signed on to remain CEO for a few years, and Nidetch remained in her role as consultant. In the late 1980s, the company's three divisions – support-group meetings division, food line, and publications and media – were still increasingly profitable year-over-year. Private-equity acquisition and second IPO In 1990, with competition from Jenny Craig, Slim-Fast, Healthy Choice, and Nutrisystem, earnings began to decline. The Heinz parent company competed by introducing newly developed Weight Watchers "Smart Ones" frozen meals. In 1997, to replace its previous system of counting and weighing food, Weight Watchers introduced the POINTS system, an algorithmic formula which quantifies a food portion for the purposes of healthy weight loss based on carbohydrates, fat, and fiber content. In 1999, Heinz, while retaining the rights to the Weight Watchers name for use in certain food categories, sold the company to the private equity firm Artal Luxembourg, for $735 million in a leveraged buyout led by the Invus Group, which manages Artal and which is run by Raymond Debbane. Artal put up $224 million and Weight Watchers financed the rest of the buyout with debt. Debbane became chairman of Weight Watchers. In 2001 Debbane organized an initial public offering for Weight Watchers and took it public again. As of 2018, Artal remains the company's largest shareholder. In 2000, the new owners reacquired the license to publish Weight Watchers Magazine from Time Inc., where Heinz had offloaded it in 199.... Discover the Weight Watchers popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Weight Watchers books.
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Weight Watchers 2018 Super Delicious Slow Cooker SmartPoints Recipes Cookbook For The New Weight Watchers FreeStyle Plan
Marjorie MahanIf you love cooking with your slow cooker, Weight Watchers 2018 Super Delicious Slow Cooker SmartPoints Recipes Cookbook For The New Weight Watchers FreeStyle Plan, is a musthave f...
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Weight Watchers Diabetes Diet And Cookbook For Seniors
Carol Ann DardleyIf you are truly serious about reversing your diabetes, you’ve come to the right place! Just imagine no more diabetes, no more testing, no more harmful drugs! Weight Watchers Diabe...
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Weight Watchers Cook it Fast
Weight WatchersReally hungry? In a rush? Weight Watchers Cook It Fast has 250 delicious, healthful, quick and easy recipes that will help you put food on the table in thirty minutes or less. Weig...
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The Skinnytaste Cookbook
Gina Homolka & Heather K. Jones, RDThis interactive edition has been optimized for iPad and iPad mini.Get the recipes everyone is talking about in the debut cookbook from the wildly popular blog Skinnytaste Thi...
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The New Atkins for a New You Breakfast and Brunch Dishes
Colette HeimowitzStart your day right with Atkins!The cliché that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is particularly true on the Atkins Diet. If you start the day with a lowcarb breakf...
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Weight Watchers Party Time Favorites
Weight WatchersTo celebrate the upcoming publication of the Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook, we have selected some of the book's most scrumptious, shareable foods for one unbeatably pr...
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Weight Watchers Diva 0 Weight Watchers Points Plus Soup Recipes Cookbook
Jackie JasmineI’m losing weight and feeling great with the Weight Watchers New Points Plus Plan! It’s amazing! Now that I have learned to cook the Weight Watchers Way, I can eat lots of deliciou...
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The New Atkins for a New You
Dr. Eric C. Westman, Dr. Stephen D. Phinney & Dr. Jeff S. VolekThe international bestseller that offers a low carb lifestyle that's more flexible, more effective, and easier to maintain than ever beforethis solid researchbased diet promises an...
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Weight Watchers 2012 New Points Plus Program The Absolutely Most Delicious Zero Points Recipes Cookbook
Katie LoveWow! On the amazing New Weight Watchers 2012 Points Plus plan you can eat all your favorite foods and still lose weight! You will never again have to say NO! to your favorite foods...
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Weight Watchers Diva New Points Plus 2012 Absolutely Most Delicious Weight Watchers Chicken Recipes Cookbook
Jackie JasmineIt’s a New Day and a New Year for You to lose weight with The Weight Watchers New Points Plus 2012 Plan! Why Weight Watchers? Because it works! The really great thing about The Wei...
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Weight Watchers 2018 Super Delicious Zero SmartPoints Recipes Cookbook For The New Weight Watchers FreeStyle Plan
Marjorie MahanWeight Watchers has done it again! How do you take the absolute best weightloss plan in the world and make it even better? By introducing The Weight Watchers Freestyle Plan! Weight...
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Weight Watchers Diabetes Desserts To Die For
Carol Ann DardleyAre you a diabetic who is struggling everyday to fight against the temptation of eating those readymade desserts that are full of high carb sugars, bad fats and way too many carbs?...
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Best-of-the New Point Plus Weight Watchers RECIPES
Jinnie HadlessSatiate your tastebuds & maintain your dream body weight, since The NEW POINT PLUS WEIGHT WATCHERS RECIPES and plan has something for everyone. The program guides the members t...
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Weight Watchers Breakfast Cookbook
Jennifer CurtisBreakfast is often touted as the ‘most important’ meal of the day, According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Eating breakfast helps reduce dietary fat and minimizes...
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The 17 Day Diet Cookbook
Mike MorenoBased on the New York Times bestselling book and revolutionary diet program that has swept the nation, a collection of easy, delicious, and healthy recipes that will help readers l...
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The Acid Watcher Diet
Jonathan Aviv, MD, FACSDr. Aviv guides readers through healthy dietary choices with targeted recipes, helping them balance their bodies and minds for optimal health and break acidgenerating habits for go...
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Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook
Weight WatchersWe're having a celebration of food for cooks who love to eat welland eat smart! Weight Watchers 50th Anniversary Cookbook contains hundreds of their most popular and bestloved reci...
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Weight Watchers Ultimate Chicken Cookbook
Weight WatchersWeight Watchers® bestever recipes for America's favorite meat: chicken!Everyone loves chickenit's versatile, economical, and perfect for everything from quick weekday dinners to le...
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Weight Watchers Smart Points Slow Cooker Cookbook
Julene WolfertWEIGHT WATCHERS SMART POINTS PROGRAMME is a simple counting system and it’s really easy to use. SMART POINTS is a revitalisation of the Pro Points system. Smart Points nudges you t...
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Weight Watchers Vegetarian Diabetes Friendly Cookbook For Seniors
Carol Ann DardleyWow! Here it is, finally! A weight watchers vegetarian diabetes friendly cookbook with delicious mouthwatering recipes that are easy to prepare and delicious to eat. This book, Wei...
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WeightWatchers Family Meals
WeightWatchersWeightWatchers provides a simple plan for enjoying foodfrom weekday meals to special occasionsthat makes eating together fun and healthy. Want to create healthy, mouthwater...
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Weight Watchers Cook it Fast
Weight WatchersReally hungry? In a rush? Weight Watchers Cook It Fast has 250 delicious, healthful, quick and easy recipes that will help you put food on the table in thirty minutes or less. Weig...
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Weight Watcher Diva 0 Points Plus Smoothies and Slushies Recipes Cookbook
Jackie JasmineI love, love, love the New Weight Watchers Points Plus Plan, don’t you? OMG! Now fruits are 0 Weight Watchers Points Plus and we can now make absolutely delicious 0 Points Plus Smo...
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Weight Watchers Start Living, Start Losing
Weight WatchersWhat Makes a Great WeightLoss Success Story?OVER 70 REAL WOMEN AND MEN (INCLUDING A FEW CELEBRITIES!) SHARE THEIR STORIES AND STRATEGIES FOR FINDING A HEALTHIER LIFEIf you've ever ...
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Breaking Up With Sugar
Molly CarmelA proven plan to break free from your unhealthy relationship with Sugar and reclaim your health and your life for good.The solution to your food and weight problems isn't willpowe...
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Weight Watchers What to Cook Now
Weight WatchersWhat are you going to eat tonight?Whether you're a seasoned cook or just starting out in the kitchen, it's a question to tackle every day. And in Weight Watchers What To Cook Now, ...
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Weight Watchers 40th Anniversary Tribute 101 OF My Very Best Weight Watchers Points Plus Delicious Recipes
Katie LoveDear Reader: Millions of men, women, and young people have lost weight with the awesome Weight Watchers Food Plan. Weight Watchers is a proven weight loss plan that is designed spe...
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Weight Watchers MyPlate Points Plus Friendly Weight Loss Food Plan
Carol Ann DardleyFinally, you can discover the amazing Secret to losing weight and keeping it off for a lifetime right here, right now!Weight Watchers MyPlate Points Plus Friendly Weight Loss Food ...
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WeightWatchers New Complete Cookbook
WeightWatchersThe newest and fully revised edition of one of America’s bestselling cookbooks for people who love to eat while embracing a healthier lifestyle. WeightWatchers knows the sec...
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Weight Watchers 2018 FreeStyle Program The Absolutely Most Delicious Zero SmartPoints Recipes Cookbook For The Weight Watchers New FreeStyle Program
Katie LoveIt’s time to celebrate a new year with the Weight Watchers New Freestyle Plan! Wow! Weight Watchers has just added over 200 foods to their Zero SmartPoints List! CLICK HERE for you...
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The Keys
DJ KhaledFrom Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success. Stay away from They Don’t eve...
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The New Atkins for a New You Cookbook
Colette HeimowitzWith more than two hundred new recipes to support your healthy, lowcarb lifestyle, the New York Times bestselling New Atkins for a New You Cookbook is a musthave guide for anyone w...
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Flexible Weight Watchers Cookbook
Shelley MyerCREATE family friendly MEALS that EVERYONE will LOVE and WORK for your GREEN, BLUE, or PURPLE WEIGHT WATCHERS plan! EASY to make, TASTE INCREDIBLE – these RECIPES you can ENJOY wit...
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Weight Watchers One Pot Cookbook
Weight Watchers International, Inc.One pot and you’re donedelicious recipes using everyday kitchen equipment with a focus on healthful ingredients and minimal cleanup.With every day so busy, wouldn’t you just love t...
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Weight Watchers Dessert Cookbook
Jennifer Curtishe new Weight Watchers PointsPlus program varies from the old points system in two significant ways. In the first instant, calorific values are not part of the revised points calcu...
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Weight Watchers Cookbook
Donna GreenSelected weight watchers zero point delicious recipes like Jerky Greens Mango Cilantro And Jalapeno Salsa Sichuan Sauce Spicy Jalapeno Salsa Steamed Broccoli AllVegetable Sou...
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Weight Watchers Weight Loss That Lasts
James M. Rippe, M.D. & Weight WatchersBreak through the 10 big diet myths! In this book, renowned expert Dr. James Rippe and Weight Watchers give you the scientific knowledge you need to break through the myths, get of...
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Weight Watchers Diva 2012 CompleteNew Points Plus Program Recipes Cookbook
Jackie JasmineIt’s a New Day and a New Year for YOU to lose weight with The Weight Watchers New Points Plus Plan! The really great thing about The Weight Watchers New Points Plus Plan is that yo...
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Skinnytaste Fast and Slow
Gina Homolka & Heather K. Jones, RD80+ Under 30 Minute Dishes and 60 Slow Cooker RecipesThe easiest, tastiest, most convenient healthy recipesever!With Skinnytaste Fast and Slow, you can get a nutritious, flavo...
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The Skinnytaste Cookbook
Gina Homolka & Heather K. Jones, RDGet the recipes everyone is talking about in the debut cookbook from the wildly popular blog, Skinnytaste. Gina Homolka is America’s most trusted home cook when it comes to ea...