Will You Lose Weight If You Get Paid To Do That?将减肥如果你赚钱吗？

Came across this interesting news.碰到这个有趣的消息。 The mayor of an Italian town is paying his residents to lose weight.市长的一个意大利小镇的居民正在减肥。 Man will get 50 euros for losing 9 pounds (4 kg) in a month and woman will be paid the same amount for losing 7 pounds (3 kg).终于可以得到50欧元，失去九磅（ 4公斤） ，并在一个月内将支付女人同样数额的亏损七英镑（ 3公斤） 。 If the weight does not increase for 5 months, each will get another 200 euros.如果体重不增加为5个月，每个将获得200欧元。 Mayor Gianluca Buonanno is taking his initiative to encourage the residents to take care of their health after the recent survey shows that 35 percent of Italians are overweight or obese.市长詹卢卡Buonanno正在他的倡议，以鼓励居民以照顾他们的健康在最近的调查显示，百分之三十五的意大利人超重或肥胖。 Source来源 . 。

So, do you want your mayor to do the same too?所以，你想你的市长也这样做吗？ Before that, let's look at this news from different perspectives:在此之前，让我们来看看这条消息从不同的角度：

• Some may argue that using money as motivation may not make sense because the city or the country does not owe obese people anything to lose weight. The motivation to lose weight should come from their own.动机减肥应该来自自己。
• How about those who are already fit, shouldn't they be rewarded too?如何对这些谁已经合适，他们不应该得到奖励吗？
• The duration of 5 months actually is long enough for one to build the habit in maintaining healthy lifestyle with diet control and exercise plan.期限5个月，实际上是一个足够长的时间建立的习惯保持健康的生活方式与饮食控制和运动计划。 Many may have started it because of money.许多人可能已经开始，是因为钱。 However, I believe that some will eventually reap the benefits of losing weight – strong, fit, better self esteem and more energized.但是，我认为，一些最终将受益于减肥-强烈，适合，更好更多的自尊和活力。
• Instead of giving hard cash, government may think out of the box to give tax rebates for purchase of fitness equipments, including gym membership.而不是给现金，政府可能会认为开箱给予退税购买健身器材，包括健身房会员资格。 Malaysian Government has just introduced similar policy in the year 2008 Budget announcement.马来西亚政府刚刚推出了类似的政策在2008年财政预算案宣布。

Many have probably get immune to the community advertisement that talks about许多人可能获得的社会免疫广告谈 lowering cholesterol levels 降低胆固醇水平 , exercising more or eating less sugar.行使更多或少吃糖。 Now, with the financial rewards, it instantly get people notice and participate in the program, but the initiatives should always come from the people themselves.现在，随着经济奖励，这让人们立刻通知，并参与该计划，但采取的主动行动应始终来自人民自己。 Otherwise, the smokers may demand for “pay me to quit smoking” request too.否则，吸烟可能会要求“给我戒烟”的要求太多。 No matter what, this creative program has created the buzz and it has achieved one of its objectives in creating the awareness of the risks of obesity.不管如何，这个创造性的计划创造了口碑，并已取得其目标之一，创造了风险的认识肥胖。 Paying people to lose weight is much better than what Mississippi planned to do once –支付人减肥明显优于什么密西西比计划做一次- stop restaurants from serving food to obese people 一站式服务的餐馆从食物肥胖的人 . 。 How sad.如何难过。

What do you think?你觉得呢？

• Stop Obese People From Eating In Restaurant阻止肥胖的人吃餐厅
• Review of the Book “Think Yourself Thin”审查书“思考一下薄”
• How Mun Started in Gym如何开始在体育馆门
• How Not To Fall Into Weight Loss Scam?如何不落入减肥诈骗？

Custom Search自定义搜索