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9th September 2015
10:42pm BST
New research, published in the British Medical Journal, has shown that older daughters are more likely to be overweight than their younger siblings.
The health data of over 26,000 Swedish women and their sisters was examined for the research which found that while older siblings tended to weigh less at birth, they were 29 per cent more likely to be overweight by the time they were giving birth themselves.
The frustrating part? Nobody knows why as the research was purely observational, but it does emphasise that while a healthy diet and exercise plan is always conducive to weight loss, there are some factors that may be outside of your control when it comes to your waistline.
Go figure.
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