Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers (NYSE: WTW (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=WTW)), founded in the 1960s by Jean Nidetch, is a company offering various dieting products and services to assist weight loss. It started as a discussion group for how to best lose weight. It now operates in about 30 countries around the world, generally under the name "Weight Watchers" translated into the local language. Its most prominent celebrity endorser is Sarah, Duchess of York.

Varying on location, Weight Watchers generally offers two distinct programs:

  • The POINTS program
  • The Core program

The programs are supplemented by optional support groups which meet regularly and provide ground assistance to those trying to meet weight-loss goals.

In the UK, Weight Watchers advertises under the slogan "where no food is a sin" in reference to its chief competitor Slimming World's system of giving some food "sin" values.

From 1978 until 1999, the Weight Watchers company was owned by the H. J. Heinz Company, which continues to produce packaged foods bearing the Weight Watchers brand name. Weight Watchers was acquired in a leveraged buyout in 1999 and went public in 2001.

POINTS System

The POINTS system is based on allocating servings of food a specific number of points. A program participant is allowed to eat food that amounts to a certain number of points per week. The number of permitted points for an individual is calculated based on the individual's weight goals, and the level of physical activity of the participant.

The formula for calculating the POINTS content of a specific food serving uses a formula described in US Patent 6,040,531:

Where p is the number of points, c is the number of calories, f is the grams of fat, and r is the grams of dietary fibre (if the dietary fibre is greater than four, use four).


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Where p is the number of points, c is the number of calories, f is the grams of fat, and r is the grams of dietary fibre (if the dietary fibre is greater than four, use four). The three largest Protestant denominations in Arkansas are: Baptist (42% of the total state population), Methodist (9%), Pentecostal (6%). The formula for calculating the POINTS content of a specific food serving uses a formula described in US Patent 6,040,531:. The religious affiliations of the people are as follows:. The number of permitted points for an individual is calculated based on the individual's weight goals, and the level of physical activity of the participant. Arkansas, like most other southern states, is overwhelmingly Protestant. A program participant is allowed to eat food that amounts to a certain number of points per week. The five largest ancestry groups in the state are: American (15.9%), African American (15.7%), Irish (9.5%), German (9.3%), English (7.9%).

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As of 2003, the state's population was 2,725,714 according to Census Bureau estimates. J. See also: List of people from Arkansas.

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Its most prominent celebrity endorser is Sarah, Duchess of York. Hot Springs National Park and the Buffalo National River can also be found within its borders. It now operates in about 30 countries around the world, generally under the name "Weight Watchers" translated into the local language. Arkansas is home to many caves, such as Blanchard Springs Caverns. It started as a discussion group for how to best lose weight. Both are fertile agricultural areas and home to much of the crop agriculture in the state. Weight Watchers (NYSE: WTW (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=WTW)), founded in the 1960s by Jean Nidetch, is a company offering various dieting products and services to assist weight loss. The Grand Prairie is slightly away from the Mississippi river in the southeast portion of the state and consists of a more undulating landscape.

The Core program. It gets this name from the formation of its rich alluvial soils formed from the flooding of the mighty Mississippi. The POINTS program. The land along the Mississippi river is referred to as the "Delta" of Arkansas. The so called Lowlands are better known as the Delta and the Grand Prairie. Northwest Arkansas is part of the Ozark Plateau including the Boston Mountains, to the south are the Ouachita Mountains and these regions are divided by the Arkansas River; the southern and eastern parts of Arkansas are called the Lowlands.

Arkansas is a beautiful land of mountains and valleys, thick forests and fertile plains. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Tennessee and Mississippi, and its western border with Texas and Oklahoma. The eastern Arkansas border is the Mississippi River. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds are found naturally.

The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. See: List of Arkansas counties, List of cities in Arkansas, List of Arkansas townships.. See: List of Arkansas Governors. Each office's term is four years long.

In Arkansas, the lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party. This arrangement is extremely rare in the modern South, were a majority of state and local offices are held by Republicans. The State Legislature is overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats, and a majority of Statewide offices are held by Democrats. Three seats are held by Democrats Marion Berry (District 1), Vic Snyder (District 2), Michael Avery Ross (District 4), and one by Republican John Boozman (District 3).

The state has four congressional districts. Senators are Democrats Blanche L. Lincoln and Mark Pryor. Arkansas' two U.S. Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become governor as a result of Clinton's election to the presidency.

This led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state. Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, ascended to the governor's office when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the Whitewater Scandal. The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. The traditional form "arkanSAW" was made official by the state legislature in 1881.

The state is the only one with an official pronunciation. Under the Military Reconstruction Act, Congress, by June 1868, had readmitted Arkansas, as well as North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861 during the American Civil War. On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States as a slave state.

Other Native American nations living in present-day Arkansas were Caddo and Osage Nation. The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled. USS Arkansas was named in honor of this state. It was admitted in 1836.

postal abbreviation is AR, and its Associated Press abbreviation is Ark. Its U.S. The population according to the 2000 census was 2,673,400. Arkansas (pronounced [ˈɑrkənˌsɔ]) is a southern state in the southern United States.

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    Roman Catholic – 5%. Protestant – 84%. 1.3% mixed race. 0.7% American Indian.

    0.8% Asian. 3.2% Hispanic. 15.7% Black. 78.6% White non-Hispanic.

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