Far more people with obesity living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood lost weight when a financial incentive was added to the mix, according to a randomized clinical trial. After 6 ...

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Giving people a monetary incentive to achieve weight loss goals doubles the pounds they lose, according to a new study. Researchers tracked the weight loss of 668 morbidly obese adults in New York ...

*Note: this paper is being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) and is being published in JAMA. Please credit both the congress and the journal in your stories.* A new study presented ...