The Weigh-Down Workshop: A New Cult?
by Craig Verdi. PBS article June 29, 2001: Gwen Shamblin: The Weigh Down Diet in it’s Religion and Ethics section. “Weight-loss programs are about looking good and feeling good. [But] there is also a weight-loss program that claims people who hunger for food are really hungering for a better spiritual life. It has caught on, but the diet and its champion have also generated controversy — over the diet itself, and the theology behind it…