A History Of Diets - Chronology of Dieting - The 1960s
Twiggy Fever. Supermodel Twiggy launched a thousand diets as women struggled to emulate her figure. Group therapy dieting began with the founding of Weight Watchers and Slimming World which offered support and group meetings to applaud or punish those based on the success or failure of their weight loss. Weight Watchers introduced a system where foods are awarded points related to their calorie count as the basis of the diet.
Twiggy Fever. Supermodel Twiggy launched a thousand diets as women struggled to emulate her figure. Group therapy dieting began with the founding of Weight Watchers and Slimming World which offered support and group meetings to applaud or punish those based on the success or failure of their weight loss. Weight Watchers introduced a system where foods are awarded points related to their calorie count as the basis of the diet.