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Is it more difficult to lose weight as a teenager or as a twenty year old?

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Easier as a teen: The longer one waits to change life style and loose weight, the more difficult and less successful one will be. Though a teen may have more time to excerise, a 20 year old may have more discipline. Bottom line, one has to make a committment to life style change and the earlier that starts the better.

Dr Villaplana agreed

Answered 7/7/2012

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