{"id":4641,"date":"2016-02-15T23:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T04:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:36:36","slug":"losing-money-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/losing-money-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing money to lose weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paying employees to exercise doesn\u2019t work, but taking money away might, according to a new study. Removing a small amount from a cash reward given upfront was more effective at promoting daily physical exercise than receiving a small reward for meeting physical activity goals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants in a 13-week physical activity program were given a goal of 7,000 steps a day, and were randomly assigned to one of three reward groups: gaining a fixed reward for achievement, being entered into a daily lottery for achievement, or losing a small amount of cash that had been given at the start of each month. Participants in the loss-incentive group were 50 per cent more likely to achieve their daily goals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annals.org\/article.aspx?doi=10.7326\/M15-1635\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 15<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Mitesh Patel, Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paying employees to exercise doesn\u2019t work, but taking money away might, according to a new study. Removing a small amount from a cash reward given upfront was more effective at promoting daily physical exercise than receiving a small reward for meeting physical activity goals. Participants in a 13-week physical activity program were given a goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,1647,1508,476,2158],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-human-behaviour","tag-psychology","tag-public-health","tag-weight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}