Weight Watchers Works because ...
Researchers seeking the most effective group design in investigating group treatment's long-term effectiveness, turned their microscope on Weight Watchers last April.
The study, which tracked 423 overweight and obese people, found that the commercial group's mean weight loss was greater--9.5 pounds versus 3 pounds in self-help--during the first year.
"Groups really provide people a sense of universality--that they have an issue that other people share," says longtime researcher Thomas Wadden, Ph.D., director of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "There is a sense of group support. People provide suggestions for each other."*
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*A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 289, No. 14) assessed the effectiveness of the program versus a large self-help approach in which weight-loss counseling was limited to printed materials and two 20-minute sessions with a dietitian.