This Is Big

I'm sorry that Jean Nidetch died before someone wrote a biography of her. I'm sorry her name isn't even on the title. I'm going to take the line “...capitalism is at the heart of wellness culture...” with me as I send me copy back to the library for the next reader.

Meltzer goes to WW for a year, to lose weight and document the process, her history with fatness and weight-loss, her journalism around commercial wellness products, and the woman we all wonder about: Jean.