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A new Annals of Internal Medicine article describes a study that compares two employer-sponsored financial incentive programs for promoting weight loss among obese employees.Individual vs. Group Incentive for Weight Loss | BioStatMatt (guess which one works best?)
![“In prior years, epidemiologists dismissed the idea that anti-obesity efforts could stymie progress against hunger, particularly because these were believed to be problems of different socioeconomic classes or communities–hence easy to target. But new data from the U.S. and abroad suggest that a surprising number of households experience both periods of food insecurity and long-term obesity, presumably because cheap calories are sought after by those who can’t afford nutritious calories, and such cheap calories lead to longer-term adiposity (but this mechanism needs to be further detailed; at present, the “dual burden” appears to be an observation alone).” (via Perversities in obesity and hunger prevention | [ EpiAnalysis ])](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma2uw3OZUL1qkfuz8o1_400.jpg)
