Another article on the same Employer benefits to better health care..this one sounds like a positive move. BD
It seems giving money to overweight workers is the best incentive to make them lose weight and is in the long term a cost-effective exercise. Dr. Eric Finkelstein of the non-profit research organization RTI International in North Carolina and a team of researchers found people paid to slim down lost more weight than employees who had not been given a financial boost to get fit. For the study the researchers divided 207 people, who had an average weight of 200 pounds (91 kilograms), into three groups to compare their weight loss. One group were not offered any financial incentive to slim down; the second group received $7 for every percentage point of their body weight they lost, while the third group were offered $14. Dr. Finkelstein says after three months people in the $14 group lost an average 4.7 pounds, compared to three pounds in the $7 group while those who had not been paid lost about two pounds. A few people lost a lot of weight and Dr. Finkelstein says it was found that people in the $14 group were more than five times more likely to lose five percent of their body weight.
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