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This University will give students their full grades if they lose weight
A lecturer at the university said he came up with the idea after he realised most of his students thought exercising was pointless
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Nanjing Agriculture University gives overweight students the chance to enrol in a special weight-loss program as they study.
A lecturer at the university Zhou Quanfu said he came up with the idea after he realised most of his students thought exercising was pointless.
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So he decided to motivate them by having their grades depend more on their physical shape than on their actual performance in school.
Sixty percent of each student’s grade is determined by how much weight they lose in a set period of time, with their curricular activity only accounting for 40 percent of the total score.
Students who enrol in the program are expected to lose at least of 7 percent of their original weight by the end of the semester in order to receive full grades.
The students who are accepted into the weight loss program must first undergo a medical check-up. Only those with excess body fats of 30% and a body mass index greater than 28 are accepted.
They then have to undergo a serious weight loss regime, which includes both intense physical activities and a drastic change in diet.
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Those in the weight loss program take part in three 90-minute fitness classes per week. They are required to do weights training, sit-ups, planking, jogging, stair-climbing and running on treadmills.
Apart from exercising, students must also keep an eye on their diet, record their daily calorie intake and upload photos of their meals to a WeChat group, for feedback from professional nutritionists.
The program has been described as a success so far with one student managing to drop from 110kg to 84.5kg.
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