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Originally Posted by donquixote99
RE TJ's weight stats:
Apples and oranges. You go from average WWII recruit to average man.
Try getting the current height/weight of average recruits. The army currently will not even take you as an age 17-20 recruit with a weight of 195, unless you are over 6' tall. with no more than 22% body fat.
http://www.military.com/join-armed-f...ght-rules.html |
I'll concede that there's some of the apples and oranges factor going on for my data. But it was the best that I could find that covered that long a period in history.
But there is no doubt that Americans are getting fatter and there is plenty of data to back that up.
http://www.livescience.com/49-decade...er-fatter.html