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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Weight Watchers"”.
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The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors
… the world attending meetings every week today, Weight Watchers has become a socially and economically significant weight loss organization with the potential to affect the lives of many people. With that in mind, this study describes and analyzes the rhetorical strategies of Weight Watchers. …
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The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors
… the world attending meetings every week today, Weight Watchers has become a socially and economically significant weight loss organization with the potential to affect the lives of many people. With that in mind, this study describes and analyzes the rhetorical strategies of Weight Watchers. …
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The management of identity and accountability in online weight loss discourse
… and identity in an online commercial weight loss group. The commercial weight loss context is socially significant because it is a space which foregrounds women's efforts to control their bodies and behaviour in order to conform to culturally prescribed norms of 'femininity' through …
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Comparison of a commercial weight loss program to traditional exercise
… the effectiveness of a popular commercial weight loss program, Weight Watchers (WW) to a traditional exercise program (TE) for weight loss and body composition. A secondary purpose was to investigate changes in blood chemistry and blood pressure. Forty-three overweight (BMI [greater than or …
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Clothing behavior, body cathexis, and appearance management of women enrolled in a commercial weight loss program
… for a group of women enrolled in a commercial weight loss program. Subjects were 171 females enrolled in Weight Watchers® programs in Christiansburg, Virginia. No previous research had investigated clothing behavior, appearance management, created appearance, and body cathexis of women in a …
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Diet Quality and Micronutrient Intake in Long-Term Weight Loss Maintainers
… and micronutrient adequacy among long term weight loss maintainers (WLM) in a commercial weight management program.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: Participants were 1,207 WLM in WW (formerly Weight Watchers) who had maintained a 9.1 kg or greater weight loss (29.7 kg on average) for 3.4 …