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WW says no shame in being overweight, taking weight-loss drugs, WSJ reports

For decades, WeightWatchers told the world that weight loss came through sheer willpower-“choice, not chance,” as its founder, Jean Nidetch, said in the 1960s. Now, thanks to new drugs like Ozempic, Sistani is rejecting that blame-the-dieter approach in favor of the view that obesity is an illness-one her company can help cure, The Wall Street Journal’s Erich Schwartzel reports. So that it could prescribe weight-loss drugs, the company paid $106M to acquire a telehealth company called Sequence, and has opted to apologize for much of what made it iconic.

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