Lose weight, get paid gold. Simple.

To GIVE NEW acceptation to the byword ‘worth your weight in gold’, Dubai has appear up an avant-garde way of arrest the country’s blubber crisis.

Lose weight and get paid in gold. It’s that easy. Where do we assurance up?

Municipal admiral will accord a gram of gold — account about €34 at accepted prices — for anniversary kilogram (2.2 pounds) of weight absent in a 30-day challenge. The minimum bead is two kilograms, or 4.4 pounds, to banknote in.

Dubai official Hussain Lootah said there is no absolute on the payout for the aureate losers.

The plan is the most recent attack to animate convalescent lifestyles in the United Arab Emirates. Across the Gulf Arab states, authorities accept aloft alarms about ascent blubber from accretion fast-food diets and abridgement of exercise.