Americans Getting Taller, Much Heavier
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WASHINGTON Oct 27, 2004 - Americans are getting a little taller and a lot fatter. Adults are roughly an inch taller than they were in the early 1960s, on average, and nearly 25 pounds heavier, the government reported Wednesday.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia, a global snapshot shows.
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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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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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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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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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People in the developed world today are taller and more robust than their great-great-grandparents ever imagined, and not just because of better medicine, a researcher says.
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NEW YORK  - Adults who carry most of their   excess weight around the middle may be at particular risk of   high blood pressure, new research shows.
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A report released last month by the Centers for Disease Control makes for some pretty heavy reading -literally. The report, &quot;Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960-2002,&quot; found that
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Along with the American waistline, the American plate and portion size have grown too. A study at Rutgers University supports earlier research that people today eat bigger servings than they did 20 years ago.
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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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Reading this article means you're on firmer footing than most Americans.
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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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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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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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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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Bad news for new Americans: A study published Wednesday shows that simply moving to the USA packs on the pounds. &quot;The longer you live here, the more likely you are to be obese,&quot; says Mita Sanghavi Goel, a