(ABC News) — More than 78,000 people have signed a petition online calling on WW, formerly Weight Watchers, to remove its new app aimed at children ages 8 to 17. The app, called Kurbo by WW, is ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, who specializes in obesity medicine, about a new app from WW — formerly Weight Watchers — that targets children. WW, formerly known as Weight ...

The idea of a diet app for kids is already behind some of the controversy surrounding the WW Kurbo backlash. It seems just how young of kids it targets is rubbing plenty of people the wrong way.

What’s new with the Weight Watchers Plan 2024 for weight loss? Click here for a new article in October, 2024 with the latest WW program updates. Read on to learn about app updates, meeting changes, ...

Last February, Weight Watchers set off a firestorm when it announced it would offer its weight-loss program, for free, to teens ages 13 to 17. It angered many parents, as well as eating-disorders ...

WW International — formerly known as Weight Watchers — and a subsidiary used a diet app to illegally collect personal data on children as young as eight, the Federal Trade Commission said Friday. In a ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, WW International, Inc. (NASDAQ: WW), has introduced myWW+ which offers a more holistic approach to weight loss and wellness that focuses on food, ...

When Weight Watchers, now known as WW, relaunched itself as a wellness plan, it was met with optimistic skepticism. The WW app for kids, launched last week, however, has been met with downright ...

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