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Business Wars Daily

Weight Loss Companies Want to Help You Lose the “Quarantine 15”

Business Wars Daily

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Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Friday, January 8, and we’re looking at WW vs. Noom.

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From Wondry, I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Friday, January 8th.

1:11.7

With all the home cooking, bread, baking, and sweatpants wearing we've been doing during the course of this pandemic, many of us have learned what college freshmen already know.

1:16.7

Lots of starches and little activity, pack on the pounds faster than you can say pizza with extra

1:21.3

cheese, please. And those stretchy pants, well, they're pretty good at helping us avoid the truth.

1:32.3

Now that it's time for New Year's resolutions, many people are facing up to their quarantine 15 and looking to drop that sourdough bread weight.

1:35.3

More than 40% of people who make New Year's resolutions plan to lose weight, according to a recent U-Gov survey,

1:42.3

and weight loss companies are standing by ready to woo customers

1:45.8

with promises of slimmer profiles.

1:48.6

Noom, an app-based weight loss program, touts its behavioral change weight loss model,

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