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Article: Weight watchers goes veg
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- Vegetarian Times
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Sabot Publishing, Inc. Jan 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The perfect way for vegetarians to shed un-wanted pounds
"How many points is that?"
That's a common question heard around the United Statesindeed, around the world-and it has nothing to do with a game of gin rummy. It's all about the wildly successful Weight Watchers Points program, in which dieters are assigned a certain number of "points" per day that equal the amount of food they can eat. Each food is pre-assigned a "points value," and dieters keep track as they go along to make sure they stay within their allotted number. The Points program was introduced in 1997, and, since then, almost 8 million Weight Watchers members have lost more than 79 million pounds using the plan, according ...