In our busier and more stressful lives, we look for short cuts to stay thin and join diet plans that have wholesale guarantees. When actually, the only thing we need to do is take a walk once a day... go play tennis with a friend... join a yoga group... and then eat whatever you want.
In this journal blog, read Part 9 called Nudge Nudge. Identify the main idea of the essay. Identify the key points. Post your summary of it.
Remember to include your ID# in your post. Aj. M
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ReplyDeleteDieting has become very widespread with the obesity epidemic, making dieting and dieting plans a cultural craze; however, these have provided few results.
The weight loss companies are gaining a lot of profilts from the people especially in America because there are many people who are suffering from obesity. In televisions, there are many weight loss programmes which are trying to attract people to join them. The weight watchers are trying to motivate their members to loose weight and this is working successfully. In a vitality programme, the weight watchers also keep their members healthy and give them certain discounts so that it will encourage members to join the programme. Derek Yach, the former of WHO and PepsiCo also came up to promote for the vitality programme.
In conclusion, some of the weight loss programmes are benficial and some are not but people still look up to them.
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ReplyDeleteDieting has become very widespread with the obesity epidemic, making dieting and dieting plans a cultural craze; however, these have provided few results. Nowadays, dieting are being encouraged by media around the world. It may sound like a great idea to promote the harm of obesity, but the result are not as effective as it could be. Many workout programs in television such as " The Biggest Loser" are just a training program that cannot be adapt into ordinary people lifestyle. To find an alternative way that is more efficient than media, Mr. David Kirchoff, chief executive of Weight Watchers, invented a new program to assist people to loss weight. This programme applied behavioral economics lesson to help members to loss weight. Similar programs are being develop around the world. As a result, these new trends of dieting will help people decide whether to loss weight or not.
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ReplyDeleteFat and fatter people have become yet thin and thinner they hope to be. Entrepreneur seek this opportunity to supply the demand of obese people with different approach of weight-loss.
The market for weight-loss value at 4$ billion. Starting from the famous American TV series “The Biggest Loser” to mainstream throughout the world. In spite of its popularity, the obesity rate remains stable. Weight-loss industry try a step further and track down each customer’s diet to give them specific guideline. On the other hand, Weight Watcher offer an application for members to track healthy routines and provide healthy surroundings. Similar approach lead by Discovery launch a Vitality program that rewards points for shopping and discounts. Newer weight loss technique prove to be more effective and beneficial, in all according to a study in the America Journal of Health Promotion and a published paper in Lancet.
It is clear that many individuals want to be healthy. Therefore, companies are trying to make the healthy choice an easy choice.
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ReplyDeleteAs the number of people gaining weight continues to grow, the weight loss market is earning lots of profits by inventing good programmes which help obesities to spend less time and money to become healthy and fit their body. However, this programmes are not always beneficial and effective to lose weight, "The Biggest Loser", for instance, is an American television series that shows contestants overcoming workouts and diets. But the result of this program was poor since it really did not help people losing weight. On the other hand, Weight Watchers' members have recorded themselves what they eat and coached by their leader or other members seem to work reasonably. Therefore, lost twice as much weight as those who went to the hospital. Moreover, Mr. Kirchhoff, the chief executive of Weight Watchers invented new program help losing weight by offering application for members to track healthy routines such as having fruits and vegetables as snacks and providing healthy surrounding seem to work. Similar programs are being developing around the world, for example, the Vitality program, which can use their point for shopping and discounts.
It can be clearly seen that each individuals has different methods of losing weight which tells that not all programmes are effective to lose weight. However, it depends on the Weight Watchers to decide which programmes are beneficial!
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ReplyDeleteMore people are trying to lose their weight since there is a continuous increase of overweight people. However, obesity statistics recommend that these numbers do not affect so much on losing weight. A print media from Lancet shows that Weight Washer's members who participate in the company program lose their weight twice as much as people who were consulting with doctors. Mr. Kirchhoff is trying to apply lessons from behavioral economy into his working. Discovery is championing something. American Journal of Health Promotion's research illustrates that people who engage in the vitality program waste less money and duration on treatment.
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ReplyDeleteDieting has become very widespread with the obesity epidemic, making dieting and dieting plans a cultural craze; however, these have provided few results.As people get fatter and fatter each day, more people focus on losing weight which made the weight loss market one of the biggest businesses in the world. Eventhough the media is one of the reasons people are getting obese, it also contributes to help people lose weight such as the American TV program "The Biggest Loser" which is now globally known. Other influential program is the Weight Watchers. Weight watchers is an interesting program which assist people on weight loss. They meet up often for extra beneficial lessons, weight watchers also try to create a more healthy environment for the members in which they have a n app for it. With new technologies and ideas, dieting has became more convenient, but after all it depends on how willing are you.
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ReplyDeleteThere are many people who gain weight nowadays, but several people try to lose their weight in the same time.Therefore, the shows that encourage fat people to lose their weight have been occurred. For example, The Biggest Loser, the American show, motivate fat people to exercise every day, and decrease their unhealthy food. However, these shows do not assist people to lose their weight much. Meanwhile, Weight Watcher' members also help fat people to lose weight by giving healthy food and creating healthy environment. There is a Vitality programme that creates activities to motivate fat people to lose their weight. For in stance, if fat people go to gym, they will grant discount for them for shopping.
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ReplyDeleteNowadays, there are various types of food and most of them contain fat, which make people gain lots of weight. People start to become over weight and lastly they become obesity. Weight Watchers’ member is one way that help people loose weight as they were published in the Lacent, which said that person who use weight watcher loose double of the weight of a person who counsel with their doctor. Weight watcher creates a new program, which forcing people to have healthy decision
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ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of fat people especially in America, so many people attempt to loose weight everyday.
They do this by turning to different companies guiding them to weight loss. These results in many industries profiting from the obese. Gyms are usually the first ones they turn to. There are TV shows like 'The Biggest Looser' Trying to motivate people. Weight watchers are known to be helping the most by giving coaching and support. They also provide members with ways to track what they eat and give them information they need. They also have deals with supermarkets which provide their members with discount. Another well known program by Discovery is Vitality Program. Its mainly to keep its patients healthy. And for every good screening or attempt the members make towards good health, they are awarded with points. They can use these points to buy stuffs. The program also expanede to different locations so they could solve this glovbal problem.
So I think these program, even though affective till some point, are unnecessary investment because anything we are paying them to do can be done at home for free.
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ReplyDeleteTo mention about worldwide dieting issue, obesity seems to be the most critical one. The rising number of obese leads to the epidemic in weight-loss trend; this is due to the fact that people are more concerned about the health effects in the future. As a result, it gives an advantage to diet insurer to receive more attention from dieter in promoting their weight-loss program. The obesity statistics, however, revealed that the result of these schemes is mostly ineffective. Weight Watcher is one of the few companies that is somewhat successful following the champion like Discovery, South Africa’s biggest health insurer. The two leading companies share the same business strategy in changing people’s diet behavior in a long term from their decision making step which is the key to their success. As the market is getting more competitive, it can be assumed that companies will launch a more effective diet program in the future in order to strive in the market.
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ReplyDeleteAmericans gain weight at an increasing rate as the number of Americans trying to lose weight grow as well. Yet statistics show that the stuff people do to lose weight does not help them so companies are trying to help them.
The first one have the members tracked what they eat and coached them. A program launched ensures that healthy decisions become the default. Members will track three healthy routines. Weight Watchers will help members create a healthy environment.
Another company launched a program that helped people go for everything from screening for high blood sugar to going to the gym.
In conclusion, these companies are trying to make people's lives easier by making the healthy choice the easy choice.
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ReplyDeleteEven though there are many weight loss programs to choose from, obesity is still increasing in today’s world. People tend to join weight loss programs with the hopes of cutting down on their weight, but on the other hand, the obesity statistic shows that none of the programs actually have any effect on losing weight. However, there is one exceptional, Weight Watchers’, a weight loss program company, seems to work well in helping people to lose their weight. A paper was published last year in Lancet, showed that people who used the help of Weight Watchers’, lost more weight comparing to people who counsel doctors on losing weight. Mr. Kirchoff from Weight Watchers’, applied behavioral economics to help the customers and to create a healthy environment for them.
In conclusion, there are many weight loss companies but losing weight is not a difficult thing to do, it depends on ourselves and most importantly is to live healthy.
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ReplyDeleteObesity has increase as the time pass, people use this as their advantage to gain profits. Number of people becoming fat has grow a lot. In the other hand, people who are looking for lose weight has grow too. Diet become a new business opportunity and many companies had made lots of money by help and guide people to weight lose. It start to spread into world wide and become very successful. For instance, the weight lose company has raises due to the number of obesity is increasing. Many company made profits from its and start to go multinational.
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ReplyDeleteMore and more people are getting fatter, not because they wanted to but they have no choice resisting there want. Not to mention the money they have to spend on there food, the fat and cause of future diseases. Therefore more and more people are trying to loss fat. which lead to a new job in the market. Such as an organization called weight watcher. The member of weight watcher will receive help on how to have a healthy routine. For example a food tracking app or help member pick hotel that sever healthy food. when they buy healthy stuff in the listed that are provide for them they get point that they can later exchange for goods. People who are member tend to spend lesser than they use too.
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ReplyDeleteThe number of overweight people is increasing slightly and this problem has played an indispensable for every countries nowadays. Additionally, many television programs such as The biggest loser and Weight watchers aim to help people to lose their weight. However, is seems that Weight watchers is more effective in coaching and guiding people. To illustrate, it guides people about healthy food and provides a healthy environment.
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ReplyDeleteMore people are becoming overweight as time goes by. Many people become more concern of losing weight. So they look for answer of losing weight by turing to these diet business companies which gain more popularity as obesity become serious issue around the world. These companies become so succesful by helping people losing weight adopting different methods of doing so. Some does work out well while some do not. For example, "The Biggest Loser" American TV show does not seem to have much effect on helping people lose weight compare to Weight Watchers as they have different techniques and ideas on losing weight.
Dear students...
ReplyDeletePlease look at the PPT for the class on the ERSETC website. The file name is "ERS(5)". There we reviewed the summary of Nudge Nudge. You can see if your summary that you posted would be complete or not. Thank you for your participation. Aj. M
Can you please tell me how can I look at he PPT for class?
DeleteGo to the ERS site: https://sites.google.com/site/ersmahidol/
DeleteAt the bottom of the web page, you can see a file list there. You can download all of the PPTs from each class. Aj. M