Dieting for Dollars: If Your Boss Paid You $500 to Lose Weight, Would You?

The latest trend in weight loss? Financial assistance from employers to lose weight and get healthy. What do you think?

According to the AP, more US employers doling out cash to get their employees to lose weight and get fit. In fact, at least a third of U.S. companies either are offering such financial incentives or are launching them soon.

One hospital in Ohio even pays their employees up to $500 a year to get walking--the more steps on their employer-issued pedometers, for instance, the more cash they rake in.

What do you think about this trend? Would you sign yourself up?

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