Deposit Contracts Motivate Weight Loss; but Once They End, Weight Returns

Source: Reuters, February 8, 2011 CHIBE researcher Leslie John was interviewed about a Journal of General Internal Medicine article describing a study she lead with co-investigators George Loewenstein, Andrea Troxel, Kevin Volpp and others that compared incentive-based weight loss interventions in obese U.S. veterans. According to John, “people respond more readily to the immediate threat of losing money compared to the distant threat of weight-related health problems.” More research is needed to see if weight loss can be sustained over a longer period of time and if the intervention can be implemented in the real world.

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Andrea Troxel, ScD
George Loewenstein, PhD
Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD
Leslie John, PhD

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