{"id":7347,"date":"2010-01-20T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T22:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2010-01-20T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T22:50:36","slug":"jenny-craig-gets-sued-by-weight-watchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7347","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Craig Gets Sued By Weight Watchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jenny_craig.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jenny_craig.jpg','popup','width=144,height=54,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/jenny_craig-tm.jpg\" height=\"75\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jenny Craig\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> world famous weight loss company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennycraig.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Craig<\/a><\/strong> has been sued by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightwatchers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Weight Watchers<\/a><\/strong> over what they say are &#8220;deceptive claims&#8221; about weight loss rates, according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandweek.com\/bw\/content_display\/news-and-features\/direct\/e3ia843bb78e2842c1c5f1e77300e2df2c3\" target=\"_blank\">Brandweek<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennycraig.com\/loseweight\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Craig TV spot in question<\/a><\/strong> claims that consumers, on average, lose over two times as much weight as those on Weight Watchers\u2019 program. It shows actress\/spokesperson Valerie Bertinelli in a lab setting surrounded by \u201cscientists,\u201d where she refers to the comparative results as the outcome of a \u201cmajor clinical trial run by serious lab geeks.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weight Watchers says no such &#8220;clinical trial&#8221; was ever conducted. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe trials cited by Jenny Craig (available on its website) are, in fact, two separate studies, conducted ten years apart for entirely different purposes than comparing the efficacy of the Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers weight-loss programs . . . The Jenny Craig &#8216;trials&#8217; do not relate to WWI&#8217;s current offerings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a heavyweight title match or something. .  .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandweek.com\/bw\/content_display\/news-and-features\/direct\/e3ia843bb78e2842c1c5f1e77300e2df2c3\" target=\"_blank\">BrandWeek<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s world famous weight loss company Jenny Craig has been sued by Weight Watchers over what they say are &#8220;deceptive claims&#8221; about weight loss rates, according to a story on Brandweek. The Jenny Craig TV spot in question claims that consumers, on average, lose over two times as much weight as those on Weight Watchers\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}