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Americans Have Gotten Shorter and Fatter

Posted June 2, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Megan Hueter

Section: In The News, His Health, Physical Health, His Nutrition, Healthy Eating

sandwich Americans stopped growing in the 1950s, and with the tremendous rise in obesity, we’re fatter, too. Could fast food be to blame? The first McDonald’s opened in 1955. Coincidence? I think not.

John Komlos, an economics professor at the University of Munich in Germany, wrote a 2004 paper entitled, “From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the American Population in the 20th Century.” This paper claims that America stopped growing in the 1950’s, when devleoped nations like Europe just began.

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