Search for New Zealand's healthiest person begins

Entries for this year’s Healthy Life Awards are now open and Weight Watchers is looking for its next health star.

Thousands of New Zealanders have taken up the Weight Watchers challenge and this year’s Healthy Life Awards are their chance to show off what they have achieved.

The Healthy Life Awards focuses on a lifestyle change through positive choices, from healthy weight loss, overcoming weight related illness and maintaining lifestyle changes over a long period of time.

Categories for the awards include Slimmer of the Year, Workplace of the Year, the Family Award, People’s Choice and the Inspiration Award.

“With the issue of obesity and weight related illness being so big in NZ, it’s really great to celebrate the people that are committed to changing their futures,” says Weight Watchers spokesperson Carol Pinker. “The HLAs are not about a quick fix, or just weight loss, but a whole lifestyle change and it’s great to recognise those who have done particularly well.”

Entries are open from 9 May to 17 August with finalists announced shortly thereafter.

For more information and to enter the Healthy Life Awards, visit www.healthylifeawards.com.au

 

About Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers is Australasia’s largest and most effective weight management support system, with thousands of New Zealand and Australian women and men having taken part in the programme since its introduction almost 50years ago. The programme’s success is based on its flexible approach to weight loss and lifestyle change.

Members can follow the programme in a multitude of convenient ways including community meetings, online, one-on-one consultations, at work or at home. The system also includes Weight Watchers extensive supermarket foods range and monthly magazine.

Recent recognition of Weight Watchers efficacy includes ranking #1 program for ‘Best Weight-Loss Diet’, ‘Easiest Diet to Follow’ and ‘Best Commercial Diet Plan’ in the 2012 ‘Best Diet’ ranking by US News & World Report. Medical journal recognition includes The Lancet, following a trial whereby overweight and obese adults referred to Weight Watchers by their GP lost more than twice as much weight as those who followed a standard care program run by their GP. Additionally, a trial published in the British Medical Journal found that overweight and obese adults referred to Weight Watchers achieved significantly greater weight loss one year after the trial than those in a control group.