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Article: WEIGH TO GO; CELEBRATING AN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTION It's the diet phenomenon that has seen Brits lose 306million stones...here are more amazing facts and figures to mark Weight Watchers' 40th birthday.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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Byline: By Maria Croce
IT'S helped Brits shed an amazing 306,250,000 stones as the UK's top weight-loss organisation and now Weight Watchers is celebrating its 40th birthday.
The first meeting was held in Dachet, near Windsor, in 1967, and now most towns and cities across the UK have at least one Weight Watchers group.
Weight Watchers was first set up in America in 1963 by Jean Nidetch, from Queens, New York. The self-confessed biscuit fan discovered the best way to control her weight was to be able to eat normal food and talk to ...