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In a lean adult male, about 60% of the body weight consists of water. Fatty tissue contains very little water and so as the amount of fat in the body rises, so the proportion of body weight made up of water, falls. Females are almost always rather fatter than males and so in a normal female 55% of the body weight consists of water. In an extremely obese person, irrespective of sex, the water content of the body may fall to 40% of the body weight.
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Horrobin, D.F. (1973). The Body Fluids and Blood. In: An Introduction to Human Physiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2349-8_6
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