Yep, as one blogger noted, it's "Weight Watchers meets Michael Pollan," with a new plan focused on--imagine this, from a company renowned for hawking its prepackaged food and for selling its copyrighted Points label to other food manufacturers--fresh fruits and vegetables, most of which are now "free."
This might sound simple or obvious or stupid to non-members (and most of the snarky and righteous commenters on the NYTimes article above), but previously one banana had the same value as a 100-calorie pack of Oreos. Now, for those of us interested in whole, local, seasonal, and/or organic real food, that was an easy choice most of the time, but Oreos call and bananas don't.
Except now, because I've been craving them. And oranges. And snap peas. Sure, these were "cheap" foods before, and a better choice than chocolate or whatever, but I didn't get into this mess by always making sensible food choices, even as a vegetarian (in fact, it's easier to eat crap as a vegetarian sometimes. I mean, Fritos are meat-free!)
But now that my chocolate, pizza, hummus, peanut butter, whole Greek yogurt, homemade bread, etc. "cost" more than they used to, the rules of the psychological game (and isn't that the biggest piece?) have changed entirely.
Wish me (and those 1.75 million other people) luck! And be prepared for a national banana shortage . . . .
fIVE PERCENT OF THE WOMEN PRESENTING THEMSELVES TO maternity units in this country are obese...FIVE %...then they complain that the ultrasound machines are not strong enough to penetrate the fat layers. One result is that some 20-30 % of the resulting births are difficult deliveries and too many babies are stillborn. Another is that at some time during pregnancy genes which normally go with normally sized children are switched off and the babies are oversize, research on this is fairly new and continues. So fat ladies, blame your mothers, weight watchers make money while you can, your end is not too many years off.
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