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NDHI<br />
NAT IONAL DIALOGUE FOR<br />
Healthcare Innovation<br />
Beyond the Scale Program<br />
and Preventing Diabetes<br />
Organization Overview<br />
• Weight Watchers is the world’s leading commercial<br />
provider of weight management services.<br />
• Weight Watchers Program uses science-based<br />
methods to achieve long-term changes in eating,<br />
activity, mindset, and body weight. Its Beyond the<br />
Scale Program, introduced in late 2015, is the<br />
most holistic, personal approach ever and delivers<br />
multiple ways for members to define success- from<br />
moving more, to eating better, and shifting to the<br />
right frame of mind.<br />
• There are 2.9 million Weight Watchers subscribers<br />
across the globe, with 1.9 million in the United States.<br />
Weight Watchers holds more than 32,000 meetings<br />
each week where members receive group support<br />
and learn about healthy eating patterns, behavior<br />
modification and physical activity. Weight Watchers<br />
provides innovative, digital weight management<br />
products through its websites, mobile sites and apps.<br />
• A 2015 Annals of Internal Medicine review by<br />
Gundzune et al. found that among over 100 commercial<br />
and proprietary weight loss programs, Weight<br />
Watchers is one of the most effective, consistently<br />
producing significant weight loss that is sustained<br />
beyond 12 months. 1<br />
Background<br />
The American Diabetes Association estimates that<br />
diagnosed diabetes cost the US $245 billion in 2012<br />
alone, including $176 billion in direct medical costs<br />
and $69 billion in decreased productivity. 2 Extensive<br />
24/7 Click to<br />
Chat<br />
Virtual 1:1 Leader<br />
Support<br />
Meetings<br />
In-person group<br />
support<br />
WW.Com<br />
Engaging articles<br />
and delicious<br />
recipes<br />
Digital Tools<br />
Makes tracking<br />
intake, weight, and<br />
activity easier<br />
Connect<br />
Peer to peer<br />
support & social<br />
media<br />
Device synching<br />
Seamlessly<br />
integrate your<br />
fitness tracker<br />
Personal<br />
Coaching<br />
Telephone 1:1<br />
Leader Support<br />
evidence shows that the prevention of diabetes is<br />
linked to two factors: weight loss and reduction in blood<br />
glucose (A1C) levels.<br />
These factors are closely linked; diabetes prevention<br />
programs that focus on weight loss have been successful<br />
in reducing A1C levels, which not only improves<br />
patients’ well-being, but also saves the healthcare<br />
system significant costs.<br />
Program Details<br />
The Weight Watchers for Prediabetes program tailors<br />
Beyond the Scale to prevent and delay progression<br />
to diabetes. The program is recognized by the CDC<br />
for the prevention of diabetes* and includes a core<br />
curriculum of group meetings and digital tools that<br />
support healthy lifestyle, including:<br />
• An activation video about diabetes and prediabetes<br />
1<br />
Gudzune KA, Bleich SN, Clark JM. Efficacy of Commercial<br />
Weight-Loss Programs. Ann Intern Med. 2015;163:399. doi:<br />
10.7326/L15-5130-3<br />
2<br />
American Diabetes Association “Economic Costs of Diabetes<br />
in the U.S. in 2012”, Diabetes Care 2013 Apr; 36(4): 1033-1046.<br />
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc12-2625<br />
*Specifically, Weight Watchers received CDC pending recognition,<br />
which all recognized programs receive for the first two<br />
years of operation.<br />
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