Sunday, September 8, 2013

Money, effective motivation to lose weight

A growing number of U.S. companies offer bonuses to their employéssi they make an effort to stay healthy .
The imagination is unleashed today when it comes to finding solutions to the rampant obesity epidemic around the world , including some developing countries. This inflation weight blew the risk of diabetes , a disease with multiple complications , which weighs more heavily on the health system , not to mention the time off work .
A growing number of companies in the U.S. offer their employees the opportunity to gain more work , through financial incentives to stay healthy . Thus, thanks to the " Affordable Care Act " on the other side of the Atlantic , employers will soon offer even greater rewards in hard cash to employees who agree to adopt healthier behaviors for health , such as quitting smoking or losing weight.
pragmatism
A study has shown that losing weight means finance is particularly effective when the reward for the performance of a group rather than an individual . The results of this trial led by the University of Michigan were published in early April in an American journal , Annals of Internal Medicine.
In reaching this conclusion, the authors of the survey did not hesitate to offer financial contributions to two groups of obese people . In the first, those who lost the pounds set a goal received $ 100 per month . In the second group of 5 people, $ 500 per month but were shared only among those who had achieved their goal of losing weight, so the opportunity to earn more than $ 100 .
After six months of such a market, the second group subject to a collective approach , weight loss was greater for those rewarded individually. If such steps diet shock or surprise our ears of Europeans , Americans themselves are much more pragmatic : " Obesity is worse in our country , the problem is getting worse , says one of the authors of study. We need to find and explore new approaches to combat it. " That one can be costly . But perhaps less than the expenditures generated by obesity and its complications.

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