Dr Michael Mosley has spoken on the feasibility of the NHS paying dieters up to £360 to lose weight to relieve stress on the service. The diet guru and founder of the wildly popular Fast 800 programme, explains how he went from thinking it is a terrible idea to 'this may actually work'.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Dr Mosley describes how the findings of a recent study may inform how the NHS evolves its policies. The health expert said: "A recent study has shown that paying people to hit weight-loss targets leads to twice as much weight loss, over the course of a year, as standard approaches."
Cash prizes for hitting targets ranged from £250 to £360 and had a big impact on how participants in the study performed. Obesity costs the NHS £6billion annually, a figure which is expected to rise to more than £9.7 billion each year by 2050.
