Jean Nidetch is the founder and author of weight watchers; Jean was made fun of for her weight and she aspired to lose weight. She spoke publicly about her story with ‘weight watching’, her voice spread with more people till many people were interested in what she was doing. In 1963 Weight Watchers became an incorporation, everyone talked about the programs and cookbook Jean Nidetch had started. This historical cookbook is designed by John Lynch and Jean Nidetch, though Jean Nidetch is an American business entrepreneur this cookbook was published in Scarborough, Canada. This cookbook was sold by marketers to people who were in the Weight Watchers programs. Today, the Weight Watchers corporation is 56 years old and Jean Nidetch died at 91 years old in 2015.