The Future of Obesity Regulation
Continuing a discussion that's been going on here, Saul Levmore delievered the annual Wilber Katz lecture, entitled "The Future of Obesity Regulation," on November 18, 2005 at the Standard Club in Chicago. Despite the staff's difficulty in choosing what food one serves for a lecture on this topic, the lunch was well attended, and the speech and Q&A are now available for your listening pleasure. The timing of this post should not be taken as a commentary on Thanksgiving's gastronomic traditions. Instructions are here.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers. Blogging will be light (or non-existent) for the next few days.
Enjoyed listening to your lecture on obesity and regulation. My question is regarding the $$$contract incentive program in people that want to loose weight. Do you think the coporate world would be willing to give $$$ to their employees to loose weight? Or perhaps a mataching type of $$$ incentive ie 401k matching fund. For example a contract is made between corporate and employee designating that the employee is willing to put into a fund and the fund returns x amount of $ per lost weight plus an extra percentage of $(hence the matching amt) as incentive to loose weight. If the employee does not loose the weight then the employee forfeits his/her amt. Can you see this happening in our society?
Posted by: Irwin Azman | November 25, 2007 at 06:53 PM