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Effectiveness of slimming clubs tested
Weightloss courses such as Weight Watchers should be used by the NHS as a weapon to tackle the obesity crisis, according to the Daily Express. The story is based on research that found that overweight and obese adults referred to Weight Watchers lost twice as much weight over a year as those who received standard advice on losing weight at their local GP surgery.
The trial, which was sponsored by Weight Watchers, offered participants free access to the programme, which may mean that their behaviour was not typical of people having to pay for the course themselves. Another limitation in the study is that it only lasted 12 months, and therefore does not address the common difficulty of maintaining weight loss in the long term.
