Weight Watchers

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

New York housewife, Jean Nidetch, started by simply talking to her friends about how to lose weight. They weighed each other and swapped dietary advice, but soon Weight Watchers had turned into a franchise. Ashley Byrne has been speaking to Lauren Cohen who joined in the 1960s and eventually became a 'trainer' leading her own Weight Watchers group.

Photo: Jean Nidetch in 1969. Credit Alamy.

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0:30.3	BBC podcast gets underway here's something you may not know.
0:34.4	My name's Linda Davies and I commission podcast for BBC Sounds.
0:38.3	As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely
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0:54.2	poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories.
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1:06.0	Hello, you're listening to the Witness Podcast.
1:08.5	History is told by the people who were there.
1:11.2	I'm Ashley Byrne, and today we're taking you back to the early
1:13.6	1960s and the creation of a new health program aimed at women which became a
1:18.7	major international success. I've been speaking to New Yorker Lauren Cohen about her memories of the birth of Weight Watchers.
1:27.0	10 and a half pound.
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