One week before the Board of Health is scheduled to vote on Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to limit the sizes of oversized drinks, Weight Watchers and other diet companies, including The South Beach Diet, Jenny Craig and Bob Greene of The Best Life Diet, are supporting the proposal.
I have previously blogged on The Huffington Post about my support for the proposal and also testified at the hearing in July.
As reported in the New York Times, David Burwick, the president of Weight Watchers North America, said, "There's been a lot of hand-wringing about obesity but very little action."
