Weight Watchers wins when our diets fail – it won't change society's broken thinking around food, Susie Orbach
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The diet industry benefits if you become a customer for life: its profits soar with our failures, says psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and social critic Susie Orbach
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Weight Watchers wins when our diets fail – it won't change society's broken thinking around food, Susie Orbach
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Weight Watchers wins when our diets fail – it won't change society's broken thinking around food, Susie Orbach
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Weight Watchers wins when our diets fail – it won't change society's broken thinking around food, Susie Orbach
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