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Overweight people will be paid to lose weight, under radical1 new Government plans unveiled today to tackle the escalating2 obesity3 crisis.
为了应对日益严重的国民肥胖危机，英国政府近日出台了一项新的激励计划，提出肥胖者减肥将得到奖励。
Under the NHS-backed scheme, those who shed the pounds will be rewarded with cash or shopping vouchers4.
Incentives5 could be higher or lower depending on the amount of weight a participant loses, although the amounts are still unclear.
However only those with a job will qualify - and employers will also be urged to offer incentives to staff who shed pounds.
Firms would receive tax breaks from the Government and would also some funding to set up slimming or exercise classes.
The move is part of a wider effort to ease the strain placed on the NHS by fat patients.
More than two thirds of UK adults are clinically overweight or obese6 and the NHS spends £5 billion a year treating obesity-related illnesses.
Under the new plans, NHS staff will also be urged to 'set a national example'.
Access to unhealthy foods on NHS premises7 will be cut and staff will have their health and wellbeing 'measured'.
Around 700,000 of the NHS's 1.3 million staff are either overweight or obese
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