NHS pays obese men £400 to lose weight in ‘Game of Stones’ – sending daily texts to ‘dodge kebabs’
CHUNKY Brits could be paid to get daily texts from their GP reminding them to lose weight.
A trial found men were more likely to slim down if motivated by a cash prize from the NHS in exchange for receiving the messages and hitting weight loss targets.
AlamyTesting the same technique on women is the researchers’ next step.[/caption]They could win £400 if they lost 10 per cent of their body weight in a year but cash was deducted for missing target weights at three, six and 12 months.
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