Americans grew taller but heavier over 40 years
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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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We have grown taller and heavier since the 1960s, according to a new study, but compared with a newly discovered human species, we are really, really huge.
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Married adults are healthier than divorced, widowed or those never married, though husbands have a tendency to gain extra weight, according to a new US study.
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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 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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Taller women are more likely to have   twins, according to a U.S. study.
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NEW YORK - Foreign-born children are healthier when they arrive in the United States than those of the same age who were born in the country, a study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Investigators have found that children, whose mothers had a larger body mass index (BMI) prior to pregnancy or a large mid-upper arm circumference in late pregnancy, also had higher levels of body fat at the age of 9 years than other children of the same age.
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The government says adults are roughly an inch taller than in the 1960s, on average. But they&#39;re nearly 25 pounds heavier. Between 1960 and 1962, the average man weighed just over 166 pounds.
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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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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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Adults are roughly an inch taller than they were in the early 1960s, on average, and nearly 25 pounds heavier, the government reports.
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Dec.14, 2004 -- After 10 years in the US, immigrants start to gain weight, according to a new study. While immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the US population, little is known about weight gain among them.
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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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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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The perception that children seem to grow taller overnight is likely true, researchers said on Thursday.
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Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their parents. But in the Netherlands, the generational progression has reached new heights.