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4 - Weight Watchers Diet (Weight Watchers)
WEIGHT WATCHER'S DIET

This diet appeared in America and was developed by Dr. Gorichard. It is an easy-to-implement nutritional program, as it consists of (1200) calories for women, (1600) calories for men, and (1700) calories for children and adolescents between (6-7) years.

This diet consists of (44) percent proteins, (6) percent fat, and (50) percent carbohydrates. A large number of people have become enthusiastic about this type of diet, as groups of people, each group consisting of thirty heavyweight people, meet in several halls to monitor the weight of their members and to talk about their psychological and physical problems related to being overweight.

These groups do some sports activities and the participant pays about ten dollars a month. The use of this diet has increased in recent years and its use has spread to some European cities such as Paris, Munich, Stuttgart and Basel due to its ease and the freedom that the participant enjoys in choosing the food items designated for this diet, provided that it does not exceed the maximum number of calories mentioned above.

The author of this diet has written a cookbook and there are a number of restaurants that apply this diet at moderate prices.

Perhaps one of the most important features of this diet is that a person can freely choose his food and diversify it according to his desire, so he eats an amount of proteins found in meat, fish, milk and its derivatives in addition to various types of fruits except bananas in a one-day program from these calories and not exceeding them. This has helped in the number of the diet, provided that this diet is maintained to a large extent.

Here is an example of three meals for one day according to the Weight Watchers diet:

Breakfast:

A piece of fruit weighing (100) grams, a pear or an apple with one egg and a piece of toast weighing (30) grams with (10) grams of butter, a tablespoon of honey - tea or coffee with milk without sugar or sweetened with saccharin.

Lunch

(100) grams of grilled chicken meat with a salad plate consisting of (100) grams of boiled carrots + (100) grams of boiled potatoes + (50) grams of a tomato and (50) grams of a cucumber with your favorite spices in addition to a piece of fruit weighing (100) grams such as kiwi or pineapple or any type of fruit except bananas.

Dinner:

A piece of grilled or boiled fish with low-fat mayonnaise and lemon juice + 4 olives and (20) grams of toasted bread and (50) grams of tomatoes and (150) grams of yogurt and a piece of fruit weighing (125) grams such as an apple, kiwi, pear, etc.

For men, they can also have a glass of juice or grapefruit or carrots after dinner, and for children, they can have a glass of orange juice or a glass of milk or a piece of chocolate weighing (20) grams.

This diet program is considered good because it follows in addition to the freedom that the individual enjoys in changing, altering and choosing food items, provided that the number of calories does not exceed the number of calories mentioned
above.

Among its disadvantages is that the individual does not adhere to it well and there is no nutritional list that can guide the person following this program, despite the existence of several good lists to know the nutritional value of each substance, but some people eat without paying attention to this list, which makes them commit mistakes by increasing the number of calories more than what is required to be followed. However, this diet is considered one of the very common diets in the world, especially in the developed world, while its supporters in third world countries are very few due to the lack of health awareness and lack of knowledge of the contents of food materials in terms of calories.