{"id":9296,"date":"2013-07-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2013-07-20T03:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T07:51:23","slug":"gold-for-kilograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/gold-for-kilograms\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold For (Kilo)Grams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/072013_0748_GoldForKilo1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Dubai you&#8217;re literally worth your weight in gold writes Ariel Schwartz:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to its oil wealth, Dubai&#8217;s citizens have become rich and fat. Half of all residents are now overweight.<\/li>\n<li>To combat obesity Dubai is offering citizens one gram of gold (worth ~$45) for every kilogram they lose in the month starting July 19<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/li>\n<li>However residents of Dubai are now so rich that a mere gram of gold is unlikely to change their behaviour much.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover the UAE spends very little on public health, and so without a sustainable healthcare structure in place, such one-off policies might be ineffectual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why weight is a fairly bad health metric, the random lottery that has also been set up, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1682621\/dubai-is-paying-its-residents-in-gold-to-lose-weight\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/1682621\/dubai-is-paying-its-residents-in-gold-to-lose-weight\">Fast Company<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dubai you&#8217;re literally worth your weight in gold writes Ariel Schwartz: Due to its oil wealth, Dubai&#8217;s citizens have become rich and fat. Half of all residents are now overweight. To combat obesity Dubai is offering citizens one gram of gold (worth ~$45) for every kilogram they lose in the month starting July 19th. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/072013_0748_GoldForKilo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}