Americans Getting Taller, Much Heavier
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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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CHENGDU, China - Americans get up for the big events - the Olympics, for instance, or the Super Bowl.
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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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NEW YORK  - Young adults who were born at a  very low weight may have a higher-than-average rate of some  psychological problems, a new study suggests.
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GAINING WEIGHT: Immigrants pack on the pounds after coming to America.
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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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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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This year should mark another year of growth in the United States. That is hardly remarkable. What is remarkable, and perhaps unappreciated, is that growth has become the norm for the American economy.
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Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their parents.
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Better nutrition has helped Americans grow a little taller. But it's been too much of a good thing: The nation is also a whole lot fatter.
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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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Bigger than big. Taller than tall. It is the way of our sporting worlds, with fanatically trained athletes coming in sizes that past generations never dreamed about, so much muscle and height clogging landscapes that used to be dominated by grace and agility.
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Chubby cheeks and dimpled thighs have long been a mother's proof of a healthy, well-fed baby. But those roly-poly infants now may be a sign of something much different: America's growing problem with weight.
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Pundits often opine that America's stature is declining on the global stage. It turns out that Americans -- literally -- are not standing as tall, compared  with the rest of the world, as they used to.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- 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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If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.
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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.