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Once you become morbidly obese like me, it’s almost impossible to lose weight.
Yet people here say to me just lose weight and exercise bro!
Yet people here say to me just lose weight and exercise bro!
Researchers with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in the United Kingdom used a decade’s worth of digital health records for 278,982 people — 129,194 men and 149,788 women — and concluded current methods of getting people to lose weight aren’t working.
Researchers said the overall chances of an obese man obtaining a normal body weight were 1 in 210. For women, it was 1 in 124.
Those odds worsen as a person’s weight increases.
Men with a BMI over 40 had a 1 in 1,290 chance of becoming healthy while women in that category had a 1 in 677 chance
Obese People Have Slim Chance of Obtaining Normal Body Weight
Researchers say less than 1 percent of obese people get back to a healthy body weight. Experts say new approaches are needed to fight this common ailment.
www.healthline.com