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French Women Worry About Getting Fat, Too

14 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by Wade Edwards in Culture

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From the NYT: The delivery box that carries a three-day sampling of meals from the weight-loss company Jenny Craig is tantalizingly large. Inside is a plastic-foam box containing a supply of what looks like candy: seven mysteriously labeled Anytime Bars and another treat known as a Yogurt Dream Bar. Jenny Craig would appear to be the Willy Wonka of weight-loss regimes, promising the magic of sweets that make you thin; the package also holds a brownie and a puff-pastry twist and a bag of chips. Finally, there are meals, packaged in sky blue: among them, French toast and an egg scramble and macaroni and cheese.  Continue here.

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