Financial Incentive–Based Approaches for Weight Loss
Open Access
- 10 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 300 (22), 2631-2637
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2008.804
Abstract
From 1960 to 2004, the rate of obesity in the United States increased from approximately 13% to 31%.1 In 2004, 71% of US adults were overweight or obese according to standard definitions,2 and at present obesity falls just behind smoking as a preventable cause of premature death.3 New strategies are needed to help reduce the rate of obesity in the US population.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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