Jean Nidetch (b. 1923, Brooklyn, New York), is the founder of the Weight Watchers organization. An overweight housewife with a self-confessed obsession for eating cookies, Nidetch had experimented with numerous fad diets before, in 1961, following a regimen prescribed by a diet clinic sponsored by the New York City Board of Health. After losing 20 pounds (9.07 kg), and finding her resolve weakening, … Wikipedia
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If you're two weeks into a New Year diet then chances are you've been following the advice of 84-year-old Jean Nidetch , the woman whose weight-loss tips conquered the world. ... Since then more than 75 million people have shed more than a billion poun www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/01/19/weightwatcher...