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You might want to lose weight, but the noticeable benefits seem so far off in the future that you continually procrastinate. You need a reason to get more fit right now - how about money?

A new study in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine reinforces this idea that if money were on the line, you might start on a healthier path. Web and mobile tools are cropping up to help you do this yourself - but first, a word about the study.

The study offered as much as $175 for people who met their goals during the intervention to which they were assigned. Researchers also offered a 20-week followup period, during which time participants could earn $30 to $80 if they kept on recording and sending their information. Money may have been a motivator, although the study did not examine this directly.

Researchers looked at 204 people who had several indicators of a need to change habits: They had low physical activity and a lot of sedentary leisure time. Their intake of saturated fat was elevated, and they had a low intake of fruits and vegetables.

Each person was randomly assigned a treatment: (1) increase fruits and vegetables, (2) decrease fat and leisure time that's not active, (3) lower fat and sedentary leisure, (4) eat more fruits and veggies and lower nonactive leisure time. Digital assistant devices helped participants monitor their activities. The study made use of mobile technologies and remote coaching for all participants.

Researchers found that the intervention resulting in the best healthy lifestyle benefits was the simultaneous increasing of fruits and vegetables and lowering of leisure time spent sedentary.

All participants got the same offer of money, so the central research question wasn't to see whether money would help people lose weight. But after the interventions ended, many participants continued improving during the five-month follow-up period, even though they were not asked or encourage to stay healthy during that time. About 87% of the 185 people who gave exit interviews said they "definitely" or "somewhat" tried to maintain their goals, the study said.

In fact, there's other evidence to suggest that money does matter. A 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that financial incentives did get people to lose weight.

So how can you get money for losing weight if you're not part of a study like this?

Some companies offer incentives to employees for losing weight and doing some healthy interventions.

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By Elizabeth Landau, CNN

You might want to lose weight, but the noticeable benefits seem so far off in the future that you continually procrastinate. You need a reason to get more fit right now how about money?

A new study in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine reinforces this idea that if money were on the line, you might start on a healthier path. Web and mobile tools are cropping up to help you do this yourself but first, a word about the study.

The study offered as much as $175 for people who met their goals during the intervention to which they were assigned. Researchers also offered a 20-week followup period, during which time participants could earn $30 to $80 if they kept on recording and sending their information. Money may have been a motivator, although the study did not examine this directly.

Researchers looked at 204 people who had several indicators of a need to change habits: They had low physical activity and a lot of sedentary leisure time. Their intake of saturated fat was elevated, and they had a low intake of fruits and vegetables.

Each person was randomly assigned a treatment: (1) increase fruits and vegetables, (2) decrease fat and leisure time thats not active, (3) lower fat and sedentary leisure, (4) eat more fruits and veggies and lower nonactive leisure time. Digital assistant devices helped participants monitor their activities. The study made use of mobile technologies and remote coaching for all participants.

Researchers found that the intervention resulting in the best healthy lifestyle benefits was the simultaneous increasing of fruits and vegetables and lowering of leisure time spent sedentary.

All participants got the same offer of money, so the central research question wasnt to see whether money would help people lose weight. But after the interventions ended, many participants continued improving during the five-month follow-up period, even though they were not asked or encourage to stay healthy during that time. About 87% of the 185 people who gave exit interviews said they definitely or somewhat tried to maintain their goals, the study said.

In fact, theres other evidence to suggest that money does matter. A 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that financial incentives did get people to lose weight.

So how can you get money for losing weight if youre not part of a study like this?

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Would You Lose Weight If Money Were at Stake?

May 28, 2012 11:19am

If most personal trainers spend hours in the gym to achieve a tone-perfect body that their clients will idolize, then Paul PJ James is not your typical personal trainer.

Instead, the Australian-born, former swimsuit model went the complete opposite direction, spending hours outside the gym and inside the kitchen to pack on 90 pounds in six months.

James had not fallen off the bandwagon, however, but gained the weight with a very clear purpose.

The reason for doing it was to better understand and empathize with my personal training clients, said James, of Melbourne, Australia. Theres a lot of people who cant come into the gym for the first time because they feel embarrassed and they really appreciate someone to walk a mile in their shoes.

The6 foot 2 inch James spent two months at his max weight of 264 pounds, and then spent six months whittling his waistline back down to a more swimsuit-model-friendly weight of 176 pounds.

I think what I totally underestimated was the actual emotional side of things, James said. Initially, it was fun to break from the routine, but then when you start to get a look at the way you feel and the way your body looks, things turned south very quickly.

James reclaimed his chiseled abs by following an eating and fitness plan explained in his new book, Take it Off, Keep it Off.

James appeared on Good Morning America today to share the books KO-90 plan and his three key tips for losing weight and keeping it off.

1) Cardio Before Breakfast, Every Day - Its called fasting cardio because your 15 minutes of cardio is actually burning stored fat, James explained on GMA. Its tapping into your stored fats and starting your day off positive.

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May 26 2012 By Richard Smith

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BRITAIN'S fattest teenager was yesterday warned by doctors to lose weight or die.

Sixty-three stone Georgia Davis, 19, is in hospital where she is believed to be suffering from diabetes, kidney disease, spinal problems and respiratory failure.

A team of 40 rescuers had to tear down two walls at Georgias home in Aberdare, Wales, before she could be carried out of her bedroom on a stretcher.

She was taken to Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, where she was yesterday on a drip and her heart rate and blood pressure were monitored.

Georgias Body Mass Index is 142.3 people with a BMI of over 30 are classed as obese.

One doctor said: At 63 stone and 5ft 6in, she needs to lose 50 stone to stand a chance of living much beyond her 20s.

And Dr Matthew Capehorn, director of the National Obesity Forum, said: At that weight Georgia is drastically shortening her life expectancy.

She could have a stroke or a heart attack tomorrow, you just dont know.

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Sara asks, "Why is it more difficult for women to lose weight than men?"

This goes back to the age old question: what's the difference between the sexes? We have for centuries compared male verses female, and attempted to explain the difference in just about every category. We've seen the rise of feminism, and have established equality (in theory) in every aspect of human life. But, there really is a difference between the sexes, and it has to do with the basic functions for each through evolution. By evolution, I don't mean the evolution from lower species to a higher species, but by evolution for survival. Females ensure the survival of the species by the ability to reproduce. Males, while also necessary for that process, were necessary for protection, hunting and gathering. These basic roles allowed our species to evolve, and prosper. Each generation of offspring, naturally selected for the best possible options for each of the roles per gender. Meaning that the females that were the most fertile, and the males that were the most effective in hunting and protection, had the best chances of survival. So let's break down the basic differences between the sexes from a medical point of view. I am only going to compare the body in relation to weight. I will leave the more complicated and politically charged areas for those much smarter than me!

Men vs. Women

15% more weight - M>F

6inches taller - M >F

Larger chest, heart, lungs, and blood volume - M>F

Skeleton denser - M>F

Higher % of body fat - F>M

Higher estrogen content - F>M

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With Memorial Day weekend kicking off the unofficial start to the summer season, it's once again time to break out the bathing suit and hit the beach. It also means that it's probably too late to drop the extra pounds you packed on during the winter if you haven't already.

Although it's never a bad time to adopt a healthy lifestyle with a well-balanced nutrition plan and an exercise program under the supervision of a trained medical professional, anyone who wanted to lose a significant amount of weight in a healthy way should have started months ago. That won't stop many from going on potentially dangerous crash diets in a desperate bid to shed pounds.

If you believe that your diet scheme is somehow different, guess again. For decades, self-appointed diet experts have come up with all sorts of methods for slimming down. Many of them are simply ridiculous gimmicks that give false hope to the naive or misinformed. Some are just plain stupid. Others, however, can be downright dangerous, and those are the ones that dieters really need to watch out for.

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The Tapeworm Diet: Anyone who has ever had the misfortune of coming into contact with a tapeworm will tell you that these parasites are just gross. So it may come as a surprise that, in the name of losing weight, some less-than-health-conscious dieters have tried the so-called tapeworm diet to lose weight.

The concept is pretty simple, albeit entirely flawed. The dieter ingests a tapeworm, which will then turn that person's insides into a cozy home, growing larger everyday on the food that person ingests. By nurturing this parasite, you're not digesting the calories that would otherwise go straight to your thighs -- at least that's the idea.

Yes, the diet will undoubtedly cause weight loss. It can also lead to nutritional deficiency and result in cysts on the brain, eyes, liver and spinal cord. Selling tapeworms is illegal in the United States, but the parasites can still be acquired in Mexico.

Fen Phen: If you lived in the United States during the mid-1990s and happened to turn on a television or radio during that time, chances are at one point or another you heard an advertisement for fen-phen. Fen-phen was probably the most notorious catastrophe of the diet pill craze in the 1990s.

Widely prescribed and easily available, fen-phen was among the most popular anti-obesity drugs of its time. It was also one of the most dangerous, causing potentially fatal heart valve problems. This spawned a torrent of lawsuits, and the drug was taken off the market in 1997.

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Competition drives weight loss in Game On Diet

A popular fitness plan uses friendly competition to encourage groups of friends to lose weight.

The Game On Diet was developed by the head writer of the TV show "Grey's Anatomy," along with a fitness expert. A group of employees at Charlestown Middle School said the competition has given them the motivation to get in shape.

The group competes for prizes including pedicures and dinner cruises on Lake Sunapee. Those with the most points win, and those who lose the competitions pay for the prizes.

"And we happen to have a really competitive group and we don't like to lose, so the very first prize we competed for with the three of us was a pedicure," said Principal Paula Southard-Stevens.

The Game On competition in Charlestown started with three school staffers in December.

"People are feeling better about themselves," Southard-Stevens said. "They're fitting into clothes they haven't worn in years."

The success led to nearly a dozen staff members joining the game, making up three teams. In less than five months, they have lost more than 200 pounds collectively.

"You can have 100 calories of whatever you choose, except for alcohol or diet sodas, so if you really want 100 calories worth of ice cream a day, you can," said school nurse Karla Chaffee. "As far red wine goes, I guess you have to wait until your day off."

"Grey's Anatomy" writer Krista Vernoff developed the Game On diet with fitness expert Az Ferguson.

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Patrick Valenzuela says he currently weighs 126 pounds and must start eating better to reduce enough to be able to ride horses without carrying excess weight.

INGLEWOOD, Calif.- An ongoing battle with weight will keep Patrick Valenzuela from riding in the near future, the jockey said on Sunday.

Valenzuela took off his lone mount on Sunday and said later in the day that he is struggling to control his weight.

I cant get my weight off, Valenzuela said in a phone interview. Im 126 [pounds]. It is tough and its tougher than I thought.

I ran this morning and I got to 126. I was 129. Until Im get my weight down Im not going to name on horses. Its not fair to horsemen.

Valenzuela is not named to ride on eight-race programs at Hollywood Park on Thursday or Friday.

Valenzuela ended a five-month retirement last month at the start of the current spring-summer meeting. Last December, Valenzuela announced his retirement, citing a gall bladder surgery in November and lingering soreness in his knees.

Valenzuela, who won the 1989 Kentucky Derby on Sunday Silence, has won 4,334 races in a career that has been plagued by interruptions for substance abuse problems in the past.

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