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The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:22 pm
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The average American woman weighs 166.2 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As reddit recently pointed out, that's almost exactly as much as the average American man weighed in the early 1960s.
Men, you're not looking too hot in this scenario either. Over the same time period you gained nearly 30 pounds, from 166.3 in the 60s to 195.5 today. Doing the same comparison as above, today's American man weighs almost as much as 1.5 American women from the 1960s. At 195.5 pounds, put five American guys in a room and you've gathered roughly half a ton of manhood.
But story is mostly one of growing girth, and it basically boils down to three factors: we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much. According to a study published in 2012 in the journal BMC Public Health, Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia.
The average American is 33 pounds heavier than the average Frenchman, 40 pounds heavier than the average Japanese citizen, and a whopping 70 pounds heavier than the average citizen of Bangladesh. To add up to one ton of total mass, it takes 20 Bangladeshis but only 12.2 Americans.
The study concludes that "tackling population fatness may be critical to world food security and ecological sustainability." And as with so many of the world's problems, the solutions start at home -- on the bathroom scale in this case.
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Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:25 pm to RLDSC FAN
What's the height difference? I know fat is taking over, just curious.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:26 pm to RLDSC FAN
I can't help it if the rest of the world doesn't have ready access to Popeyes and boudin
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:26 pm to RLDSC FAN
The hauntingly gorgeous and long-suffering Mrs. Pimp weighed 94 lbs for two decades. Now that she is a gym rat she is up to a femininely chiseled 102.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:27 pm to GRTiger
the article states roughly an inch in height.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:I gave your mom a rough inch
the article states roughly an inch in height.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:33 pm to jmcs68
Like 4'10 Maybe. See sig pic.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:37 pm to RLDSC FAN
I'm 6'1" and 175 lbs and I love a good buffet. It's really shocking, the majority of the time I'm eating like this most of the people there can barely move around because they're so big but they're still stuffing their face. The next time you're in Mcdonald's make note of how big the people eating there are. It's not my business because they can do whatever they want but we're in a very sad state as far as these things go.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:38 pm to LSUDUKE
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6'1" and 175 lbs
That's thin
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:40 pm to OWLFAN86
That is the funnest gif out there and always makes me cry laughing no matter how many times I've seen it.
Posted on 6/12/15 at 10:40 pm to RLDSC FAN
No idea what my gf weighs, but if it were more than 110, I'd be shocked.
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