http://www.vox.com/2015/6/15/8784389...ca-weight-gain
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The average American woman now weighs 166 pounds — as much as a 1960s man
Updated by Julia Belluz on June 17, 2015, 11:37 a.m. ET
There's no doubt that Americans are bigger today than they were in the 1960s. But Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post pulled out some staggering stats to demonstrate exactly how big Americans have become: the average woman today weighs 166.2 pounds — which is almost the exact same amount as the average American man in the early 1960s.
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Both sexes have gotten bigger since over the past 50 years. Men are 17.6 percent heavier — which translates into a roughly 30-pound gain. "At 195.5 pounds, put five American guys in a room and you've gathered roughly half a ton of manhood," Ingraham notes. In the same period, women's weight shot up from 140 pounds to just over 166 pounds — an 18.5 percent increase.
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Overall, 30 percent of the adult population is now obese. Since 1980, obesity rates more than doubled among adults and tripled among children.
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The article seems to go for some shock value by focussing on women when they could have focused on men or just the fat population in general.
What is shocking is how fat we are getting. Canadians used to be able to laugh at fat Americans but the numbers for Canada aren't much better when ever any Canadian reports come out. In reality you don't need numbers, you can just look at all the fat people out and about.
Were on the verge of a health care crisis. And airline seats are getting smaller. Ugh!