Talk:Nutrisystems Diet

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on March 1, 2007. The result of the discussion was nomination withdrawn.

Please add to this page, as this is just a stub article. Thefinalprophecy 10:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I was searching for information about the Nutrisystems Diet program and found no information here on Wikipedia. It is a very popular diet with lots of customers. I added the basic information that I new on this website. I don't understand why you are tagging it for deletion so quickly. It is a worth wile topic. I just don't know enough about it to create an entire article. I created a stub article and figured that someone else could add on if they knew more. It is reasons like this that I wonder how any articles are ever created on this site. It may be about a company, but Nike has an article. I just don't understand why you delete stuff so quickly. I wanted to learn about the subject, didn't find any information about it here, and then tried to create an article for people to add on to. Delete it if you want, but this is incredibly frustrating. Thefinalprophecy 10:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello, and yes the process can be a bit confusing. We actually don't aim to cover everything. Generally, what we ask is that things are covered in reliable secondary sources to establish their notability. Has this been covered in, for example, a magazine or newspaper? If so, I can certainly help you cite the source. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 10:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, I'll say that having Dan Marino speak for them at least probably makes that likely, so I'm going to withdraw the speedy and treat that as an assertion of notability. Some secondary sources still would be quite helpful though. Seraphimblade Talk to me Please review me! 10:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I found 128 sources on ProQuest. but most are just about the huge stock increase and fast growing sales. I added several which talk more about the product and the company. I have had some of it that someone ordered and many of the items were quite tasty. The real benefit according to some sources cited is re-educating people that the 2500 calorie portions now common in restaruants are inappropriate, and that they will not starve to death if they consume a dietician-selected portion. The sources also note that they eliminated the expensive weightloss centers and basically just ship the monthly box of food and have website or phone counseling. It is a huge company with a fast growing share of the "delivered diet food" market. Since none of the food requires refrigeration, it competes well with frozen diet food like Weight Watchers or Lean Cuisine. and the customer does not get the giant portions of unspecified carbs and fat that restaurants provide. Edison 18:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

So does this work or not? Or is this the sort where you have to eat this 'with an exercise program'? PolarisSLBM 14:59, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I highly doubt it... all the commericals say "results not typical" and "weight lost prior to nutrisystem", which kind of defeats the purpose. Seems like a scam to me. --128.61.41.45 (talk) 21:52, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism? Complaints?

Maybe there should be a section containing the serious number of complaints and criticism that the nutrisystem diet receives from various consumer rights sites such as consumeraffairs.com

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/11/nutrisystem_problems.html

http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/nutrisystem

[edit] Why plural?

The name of the company is "NutriSystem, Inc.", singular. Why is this Nutrisystems? I suggest moving the article to "NutriSystem, Inc.", with interior u.c. "S", and making the article about the company.--BillFlis (talk) 00:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)