Summary: Americans getting taller, heavier
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A WEIGHTY ISSUE: On average, American adults are about an inch taller and nearly 25 pounds heavier than they were in the early 1960s, the government reported Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON Oct 28, 2004 - Better nutrition has helped Americans grow a little taller. But it&#39;s been too much of a good thing: The nation is also a whole lot fatter.
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Oct. 27, 2004 -- If you could go back in time to 1960, you might notice that men, women, and children were a bit shorter then and had a lower average weight than today.
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American children and adults have become a little bit taller over the past 40 years, but a lot heavier, according to government statistics.
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Older, heavier and sedentary, more and more Americans are suffering from high blood pressure, the latest government report shows. And while the numbers in the report are
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The Dutch, thought to be the world's tallest people, seem to have stopped growing. Average heights have increased scarcely or not at all since 2001, the Central Bureau for Statistics said Monday in a new study.
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Outside of New York, however, Americans seem to have adjusted to a Ânew normal,Â two Times/CBS News polls suggest.
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Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their parents.
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The longer immigrants live in the United States, the more likely they are to take on what has become an increasingly common American characteristic: obesity.
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The average American gains five pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year&#39;s -- but you don&#39;t have to, experts at Duke University Medical Center say.
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There is a flip side to the American dream, medical researchers have discovered. Moving to the United States can make you fat. A study of immigrants&#39; health shows that
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Married people are healthier than other adults, though husbands have a tendency to pack on extra pounds, the National Center for Health Statistics says.
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NEW YORK  - The U.S. government recently   bumped up its recommendations for fruit and vegetable   consumption, and a new study suggests it's very likely   Americans aren't keeping up.
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
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NEW YORK  - As body weight increases in men, the risk of death from suicide falls markedly, new research hints.
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America used to be the tallest country in the world. From the days of the founding fathers right on through the industrial revolution and two world wars, Americans literally towered over other nations. In a land of boundless open spaces and limitless natural abundance, the young nation transformed its increasing wealth into human growth.
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A new report by government researchers finds the number of Americans with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the past decade, as Americans have gotten older and fatter.