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<p>Doughnuts are fried in cooking oil in a New York eatery on Feb. 24. Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed people in a yearlong study to drop an average of nine pounds Ñ four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts.</p>

<p>Doughnuts are fried in cooking oil in a New York eatery on Feb. 24. Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed people in a yearlong study to drop an average of nine pounds Ñ four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts.</p>

March 9, 2013

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Resist the temptation
March 9, 2013 8 p.m.

Resist the temptation

Study: Cash can bribe dieters to lose weight

Willpower apparently can be bought. The chance to win or lose $20 a month enticed dieters in a yearlong study to drop an average of 9 pounds - four times more weight than others who were not offered dough to pass up the doughnuts.