Americans grew taller but heavier over 40 years
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WASHINGTON  - 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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Americans are a bit taller and much heavier than they were in the early 1960s, says a report released Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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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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Many immigrants to the United States  soon get fat, joining an increasingly obese population in their  adopted country, researchers said on Tuesday.
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More Americans than ever have high blood pressure and the number has risen by nearly a third over the past decade, researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Two distinct patterns of childhood growth may raise the odds of developing high blood pressure later in life, a new study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - A high body mass index (BMI) in middle-aged men is associated with an increased likelihood of having a stroke over the next two or three decades -- even after taking into account other risk factors such as high blood pressure
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A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the United States - the land of drive-thrus, remote controls and double cheeseburgers â-or more than 10 years.
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Men who lose 3cm or more of height as they age have an increased risk of heart attack and death, a study finds.
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A new study found that obesity is relatively rare in the foreign-born until they have lived in the United States - the land of drive-thrus, remote controls and double cheeseburgers - for more than 10 years.
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As Americans get older and heavier, the number of adults with high blood pressure has climbed to almost one in three over the past decade, putting more people at risk of a stroke
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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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Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the U.S. population is, literally, growing.
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Americans have sipped and slurped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes.
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Middle-aged men may be able to lay a hefty share of the blame for their expanding bellies on their parents, study findings suggest.
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Married adults are healthier than widowed, divorced or those never married, though husbands have a tendency to gain extra weight, founding to a new US study.
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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