Recently 54 Cargill employees participated in the company's Biggest Loser Program. The two individual winners received a $150 Visa Card. The remaining money paid in over the total program, totaling $316, was donated to the Moniteau County Relay for Life.
The group of 54 men and women were those who wanted to lose weight or just get in shape for the summer. The program ran over a course of 15 weeks and participants lost a total of 437 pounds and 3.66 percent of their body weight.
Each week participants who gained weight paid in one dollar per pound and participants who chose not to weigh that week paid a two dollar penalty. By the end of the program the man and woman losing the biggest percentage of body weight was declared the winners.