US adults aren't getting taller, but still putting on pounds

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Source: Associated Press

US adults aren’t getting taller, but still putting on pounds

By MIKE STOBBE
today

NEW YORK (AP) — You don’t need to hang the mistletoe higher but you might want to skip the holiday cookies. ... A new report released Thursday shows U.S. adults aren’t getting any taller but they are still getting fatter.

The average U.S. adult is overweight and just a few pounds from obese, thanks to average weight increases in all groups — but particularly whites and Hispanics. ... Overall, the average height for men actually fell very slightly over the past decade. There was no change for women.

One factor may be the shift in the country’s population. There’s a growing number of Mexican-Americans, and that group tends to be a little shorter, said one of the report’s authors, Cynthia Ogden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The findings come from a 2015-16 health survey that measures height and weight. More than 5,000 U.S. adults took part. ... CDC records date back to the early 1960s, when the average man was a little over 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighed 166 pounds. Now, men are almost 1 inch taller and more than 30 pounds heavier. But today’s average height of 5 feet, 9 inches is about a tenth of an inch shorter than about a decade ago.
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A new government report shows that while U.S. adults aren't getting any taller, they are still getting fatter. http://apne.ws/4WzH5Px

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[comradebillyboy]

1. I'm finally in sync with a national trend

[Dan22X]

2. Big Food Big Medical Big Pharma - All Making Billions While We Turn Into Whales

"The American Diet" is pretty much lethal.

Sugar, carbs, dairy, anti-biotics filled meat, and fat with sugar.

All them subsidized farmers need to sell their corn, and grain, regardless how deadly they are.

Good thing folks are learning about Keto, veggies, and fasting, and people who want to be healthy are talked about them.

Fasting has the entire weight of the industrial media complex against it because it keeps people from going to the doctor, or the hospital, and no one is selling them all that much food or pills. No profit in fasting / health.

Intermittent fasting -

Keto Diet -

Watch these if you don't want to be fat, diabetic, and sick for the rest of your days.

If you don't want to do Keto watch this - Eat to Live / Joe Fuhrman -

This diabetic has done all 3 and am almost not a type II diabetic any more. Pretty much cured without any medication and simply walking for exercise.

You don't have to die from sugar / flour if you don't want to, and I don't go hungry. Even when fasting. It is amazing how easy it is to go for 16 to 24 hours without eating, which is the most healthy thing most people can do. It's not that hard.

[lunasun]

4. Thanks I have watched Dr Fuhrman on Food Matters TV, PBS TV &,elsewhere Over the years he has gotten

older, but he still looks great. I think he is in his late 60's now and still sending out the message that food can be both healthy AND delicious!

[BigmanPigman]

9. I have read different studies

which said occasional fasts are good for you. Also underweight mice live longer than overweight mice...I assume that applies to people too.

[LakeSuperiorView]

3. I know I am getting taller, as the ground kees getting farther away.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

5. Wow, average woman is 5'3.5" and 170.5 lbs

The only circumstance where that weight should be normal for a woman that height is if she was pregnant and at full term.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. That hardly seems possible. I wonder if a revision to that chart will be forthcoming. NT

[BigmanPigman]

10. I learned that a 5'0" woman should weigh 100 lbs

and add 5 lbs for every inch over 5'. Of course Body Mass Index varies according to gender and size of your frame (small boned people weigh less of course).

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323446.php

https://www.rush.edu/health-wellness/quick-guides/what-is-a-healthy-weight

[FakeNoose]

11. I believe it was true 40 or 50 years ago

... but I doubt very much if it's true today. If I went to see my doctor weighing 130 pounds - I'm 5'6" - my doctor would think I've been starving myself. However at age 20 or 21, I probably did weigh about 130 or slightly less.

[BigmanPigman]

12. I am 5'1" and weighed 84 lbs when I was 45

and my doctor told me to eat NO FATS. I told her that if I did that I would disappear completely. She was trying to figure out what was wrong with me and insisted it was my digestive system. It turned out I had Mono for 6 MONTHS (and didn't miss a day of work teaching either). A different doctor finally diagnosed it correctly after my body eventually began healing itself. What an idiot she was. When I stopped teaching I gained a ton fast (not running around after 6 year olds all day, every day). I had to cut my calories in half to maintain my pre- retirement weight.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

13. That's pretty much my size

I'm almost 40. No doctor has ever told me I'm too thin. They say I'm in good health. Last time I went in my doctor thought I looked like a 20 year old. Nice to hear, but also weird when you've got kids that are getting close to that age.

170 lbs was exactly what I weighed full term pregnant with both of my kids too. That's why it seems crazy to me that the average weight is 170 lbs for American woman. That's a lot of extra weight to be carrying around all the time.

[NickB79]

14. My wife is 5'3" and 225 lb

Another 5 lb and she'll be classified as morbidly obese. She's only 37.

I hit the gym, eat a ton of vegetables from my garden, and try to be a good role model for our 8 yr old. My wife refuses to come to the gym with me, and drinks a 2 liter of Coke daily

I'm terrified she won't live long enough to see grandchildren, or that I'll have to care for her when her weight finally causes diabetes, heart disease, cancer or joint failure and she becomes disabled.

[IronLionZion]

6. My waistline proves I'm American. Trump can't deport me now.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. "US adults aren't getting taller, but still putting on pounds..."

Meanwhile, in "Socialist" Norway...