NEW YORK You don't need to hang the mistletoe higher, but you might want to skip the cookies.
A report being released today shows U.S. adults aren't getting taller but they are 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 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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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 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-foot-9 is about a tenth of an inch shorter than a decade ago.
The average woman in the early 1960s was 5-foot-3 and 140 pounds. Now, women are a half-inch taller and about 30 pounds heavier, on average. The average height is about the same as it was a decade earlier: 5-foot-4.
Other survey findings:
In the last decade, the average weight of men rose about 2 pounds, to 198. For women, it rose 6 pounds, to nearly 171.
Men have 40-inch waistlines, on average. Women's waistlines are a little under 39 inches.
The average height of black men and white men has been holding steady, at a little under 5-foot-10.
Mexican-American and Asian-American men are roughly 3 inches shorter than whites and blacks, on average.
In 2016, about 18 percent of the nation's population was Hispanic, up from about 13 percent in 2000, according to U.S. Census figures. Mexican-Americans account for nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic population.
I don't understand these statements of " Mexican-American " or "African-American"....
You're an American once you're a citizen, that has heritage from another part of the world...
I'd love to know how many Irish-Americans exist, or French-Americans, or German-Americans, or Dutch-Americans....
It's important to remember that we Invaded the US-of-A, & Oz, & that we all come from some-other-place originally, as our heritage lines prove...
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I thinks it's more of a stand-over tactic, so you use it to infer that "You're better than Mr.x, because you come from"....Yadda yadda...
Which sadly boils down to a form of racism...Put simply, colored American or white American, only we can omit the "'white" part, since we're purer Americans...It seems that only colored Americans get the adage... Because French, Dutch, German & Irish are white folks...
PowerStrokers avatar-moto quoting the late Mr.Lindon B. Johnson, says it all, sadly...
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"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
"Which sadly boils down to a form of racism...Put simply, colored American or white American, only we can omit the "'white" part, since we're purer Americans...It seems that only colored Americans get the adage... Because French, Dutch, German & Irish are white folks..."
Did you just say that whiter Americans are purer Americans, or did I not get that properly?
I would submit the purest Americans would be native Americans who are more redish in color. White people came from a totally different continent, and by rights Mexicans are a more pure form of American than we when you consider they have their entire lineage on the North American continent.
Rex's head explodes in 3... 2... 1...
-- Edited by PowerStroker on Friday 21st of December 2018 04:25:00 PM
Did you just say that whiter Americans are purer Americans, or did I not get that properly?
-- Edited by PowerStroker on Friday 21st of December 2018 04:25:00 PM
No, not quite my friend...
I'm trying to point-out the racism that does exist with the "white-European" invaders centuries ago...eg. You always talk / hear about black-Americans, colored Americans, African Americans, but never Dutch-American, German-American etc etc.
If your a white American, you don't get the added description of where you came from...You're an American !
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"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.
