Dubai Diet: Slim Down, Get Paid in Gold
Shedding weight is as good as gold under an unusual slim-down initiative in Dubai over growing concerns about rising obesity levels in the wealthy Gulf city-state.
Municipal officials are offering a gram of gold — worth about $45 at current prices — for each kilogram of weight lost in a 30-day challenge. The minimum drop is two kilograms, or 4.4 pounds, to cash in.
Local media Wednesday quotes Dubai official Hussain Lootah as saying there is no limit on the payout for the golden losers, who must sign up and weigh in Friday.
The plan is the latest attempt to encourage healthier lifestyles in the United Arab Emirates. Across the Gulf Arab states, authorities have raised alarms about rising obesity from increasing fast-food diets and lack of exercise.
17 July 2013, 14:58
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Are they revoking Lebanese Visas there too or is it ok to go there, hah ?
17 July 2013, 23:18
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michel_tannous, the Arab brain is a box that was never opened... Rest assure my friend, it will never ever open...
18 July 2013, 00:08
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I disagree, the arabs have glory days. But now its only stupidity and i blame the khaleeji rulers first and foremost because they have used the wealth to bribe politicians in the levant and north africa and corrupt everything. They spend billilos on silly art they buy from europe while fellow arabs starve. The europeans laugh at them but they dont even notice.
