{"id":1617,"date":"2016-01-08T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2016-01-08T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:57:35","slug":"incentive-worth-550-fails-to-motivate-obese-workers-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Incentive Worth $550 Fails To Motivate Obese Workers To Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Promising workers lower health insurance premiums for losing weight did nothing to help them take off the pounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/content.healthaffairs.org\/content\/35\/1\/71.full.html\" target=\"_blank\">a recent study found<\/a>. At the end of a year, obese workers had lost less than 1.5 pounds on average, statistically no different than the minute average gain of a tenth of a pound for workers who weren\u2019t offered a financial incentive\u00a0to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study highlights some of the weaknesses\u201d of workplace wellness programs, said Dr. Mitesh Patel, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Perelman School of Medicine and the study\u2019s lead author. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/incentive-worth-550-fails-to-motivate-obese-workers-to-lose-weight\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=25093053&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--RMd0_NfYxg-dCRElNXDtjWXAlK1hvqlnfa4NvbCOsZFTGj-v8qypSat8-JX9G4U_V_TBhVlMorXr4X6BhNT7C2VcjNQ&amp;_hsmi=25093053\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News) Promising workers lower health insurance premiums for losing weight did nothing to help<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}