You already know we’re getting heavier. Rising obesity rates are as American as apple pie — a cliché that seems freshly relevant in this context. But did you know we’re also getting shorter?
We didn’t! At least, not until we tried to use the National Health Interview Survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to figure out which professions boast the tallest workers.
We split the rankings by gender, so our analysis didn’t simply lead us to the most male-dominated jobs, such as mechanics and engineers. Among women, the tallest are public officials — a category that includes top executives as well as legislators — and a broad category that includes writers, artists, entertainers and athletes. Among men, the tallest are, again, public officials, who share that distinction with sales representatives.
This made us wonder: Heights are self-reported in this survey, and the tallest professions are known for their spin skills. So, could the great American height slump somehow be fueled by Americans growing more honest about their stature?
Well, no. We saw similar results in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a separate, […]
After becoming a vegetarian, i lost so much weight that I weigh as much as I did when I was in about 10th grade in hish school. I do eat healthier now; eating only organic food or at least non-GMO food, and am in perfect health. My best friend’s wife’s father also eats well and just turned 100 years old because of it. Also Meditation and exercise play a big part in being healthy!
Many folks have, or are in the process of identifying and changing their diets. Americans are no exception. Eating flesh gets a 9 outta 10 ranking for delivering protein. As far as human health goes, meat, the euphemistic word for those shrink-wrapped styrofoam plates, gets a zero or a 1. Just what is it that causes all our lifestyle diseases? Why do countries that don’t eat our diet forego our diseases? Why have people lost their innate ability to be curious, to question, to ask? All of this is evolutionary. If one looks at our bodies, they have not been biologically evolved to eat the SAD; aka, Standard American Diet.