Posted on 10/27/2004 1:01:30 PM PDT by Between the Lines
I'm A LOT TALLER AND HEAVIER than I was 40 years ago!.....
Well, DUH. 40 years ago, a lot of them hadn't even been born.
michael moore accounts for a good deal of that extra weight
Well, let's see. Forty years ago I was 11 years old. I was about 5' 4" and about 100 pounds. Now I'm 6' 2" and about 275 lbs (trying to get to about 255 lbs). So I'd have to say that I fit the profile.
Taller and heavier - do you mean just plain bigger?
Well, I'm a lot taller and heavier than I was 40 years ago. Especially since I wasn't even born yet.
Dang, I'm slow. But I swear I was typing, not reading your post.
40 years ago I was 11. This is Bush's fault.
Ditto. By ~4 feet and 180 pounds.
It's all Bush's fault.
Every generation gets bigger. I'm 5'10 (female) and about average height for my family. My mom has chairs from our Connecticut ancestors (circa 1700 or so) that are so small that we feel like we're in the circus when we sit on them.
We are too fat, as a nation, but the height will only increase as long as the nutrition holds out - I wonder if it will hit a genetic wall some day?
LQ
Let the FORCE guide your fingers........
Every generation gets bigger. I'm 5'10 (female) and about average height for my family. My mom has chairs from our Connecticut ancestors (circa 1700 or so) that are so small that we feel like we're in the circus when we sit on them.
We are too fat, as a nation, but the height will only increase as long as the nutrition holds out - I wonder if it will hit a genetic wall some day?
LQ
I'm a bit shorter and a lot heavier than 40 years ago.
I was at a family reunion last monts and someone passed around a 30 year old group picture. My kids asked about the two young, thin people in the middle. It was their parents.
No $#!+!! I was 12 yrs old and probably weighed 100 lbs.
Could this be adding to soaring health care costs in America? Heart disease, diabetes, arthiritis, etc. show up when you're packing around the lbs. Now that I think of it, the Edwards' are killing us, ambulance chaser and fat wife, all in one family!
I'm a lot taller and heavier than I was 40 years ago, too... considering 40 years ago I was merely a gleam in my father's eye, but that's not the point I guess...
The problem is that with the BMI anyone who has a lot of muscle mass is considered morbidly obese. I am 6'1 and 215 pds and have lifted most of my life, according to the BMI I am morbidly obese even for a large frame person. I will agree that I see many people that need to get off the couch and at least do some yard work though.
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