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title: ""In a given year, the average obese woman has roughly a 1 in 124…"
date: 2016-02-23
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# "In a given year, the average obese woman has roughly a 1 in 124…

*February 23, 2016 · Facebook*

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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/29/the-age-when-you-gain-the-most-weight/?tid=a_inl](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/29/the-age-when-you-gain-the-most-weight/?tid=a_inl){target="_blank"}
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\"In a given year, the average obese woman has roughly a 1 in 124 chance of returning to a normal weight. And for obese men, the odds are even worse: 1 in 210. As if that weren\'t bad enough, obese men and women have very low odds attaining even a 5 percent weight loss in a given year: 1 in 10 for women, and 1 in 12 for men.\"\
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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/29/the-age-when-you-gain-the-most-weight/?tid=a_inl](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/29/the-age-when-you-gain-the-most-weight/?tid=a_inl){target="_blank"}
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