Posted on 09/23/2017 12:27:52 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $700,000 for a study that will pay obese teenagers to not eat as much.
A University of Minnesota study that began earlier this year is analyzing whether teens who receive financial incentives for replacing meals with liquid shakes is an effective anti-obesity tool.
"Severe obesity is the fastest growing category of pediatric obesity, with a reported prevalence near 6 [percent] in the United States," according to the grant for the project. "Unfortunately, conventional treatment approaches rarely result in sufficient weight loss in adolescents with severe obesity; therefore, innovative and effective strategies are desperately needed."
"The financial incentive model has been used successfully in adult obesity trials to address suboptimal adherence to lifestyle modification therapy and improves weight loss outcomes," the grant continues. "Although yet to be investigated as a weight loss intervention among adolescents, financial incentives have been shown to improve many health-related behaviors in teenagers."
The study will involve a yearlong trial with 142 obese teens. A grant worth $686,350 was awarded in April, and research will continue through March 2022.
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The Power Over Fat Kid Food is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, therefore, the Power Over Fat Kid Food is reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Amendment 10
Here is your copy of the grant from the “National Institutes of Health” and the “U.S. Department of Health and Human Services”
https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9308599&icde=36119320
Hmmm, I don’t seem to see those organizations listed in my copy of the constitution:
“National Institutes of Health”
“U.S. Department of Health and Human Services”
oh my goodness, chocolate diet shake or salad, what should the fat teen eat.
if i were the teen i would go for the shake and bulk up the meal with fries and maybe add a scoop of ice cream to the shake.
Go outside and play!
Where is my check?
That’s not as bad as Sacramento paying gang-bangers not to kill each other.
there’s only one way to lose weight and that’s burning calories. Get these kids walking 5 miles a day and watch the pounds melt off and the attitudes improve. No money needed.
These people are either utterly clueless or being paid off by the makers of Slimfast.
They’re paying kids to drink processed crap instead of eating processed crap!
Seriously? How about paying kids to eat real food instead of junk food?
But the govt can’t even get the food pyramid right, so what can we expect.
$4,833 per subject.
My sister had a weight problem. When she was a teen at home, my mom fixed all kinds of good food in reasonable portions for her. She would eat it, then sneak a bunch of other goodies.
Exactly. Sitting around watching TV or on social media doesn’t burn calories.
I am guessing they are experimenting so they can tax you by the pound.
You know folks, correct me if I’m wrong.
Wouldn’t it be wise to double the pay of any person serving in Congress, who promises not to show up to work until the next session begins?
Also, any government entity that hands out money like this, should be canned and banned from working for the government again.
And subtract the money they’ve given away from any pension they had coming.
Who authorized this? Fire them too, and likewise with their pension.
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