Challenging Obesity Cases Helped By Incentives

Source: Slate, January 2, 2014 A recent Slate article describing ways to motivate people to exercise refer’s to Kevin Volpp’s study that took morbidly obese men and gave them financial incentives for meeting weight loss goals. The incentive groups both lost a significant amount of weight, but most subjects gained the weight back after four months. Although this was not a long term solution, this challenging group changed their behavior with the help of incentives.