I read a wonderful story this morning in the November 2008 Guideposts Magazine about how an unlikely family business came to be. It was called "The Team Dean Diet - The Family that loses together stays together".
It's about a close-knit family of six grown children, and mom and dad, living in Nebraska. They had all been eating the traditional Nebraskan diet their entire lives - and it showed... Along comes the TV show The Biggest Loser, and it struck a cord with one of the family members, enough so that it inspired him to speak up and enlist not just one, but all the other family members to begin a family diet plan based on developing healthy eating habits, regular exercise, and accountability - to each other. But this isn't where the story ends...
The result of this new accountability plan is that the family lost a combined total of 500 pounds on the diet they now call F.A.S.T. - Families Always Succeed Together.
The family has been on TV, written a book, and are now organizing people all over the country to try their diet! This family is now working together in what has to be, or will become soon, a very profitable enterprise for all of them. Just goes to show you that family businesses can come in all shapes and forms...
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