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From WaPo:
On average, black American women are getting shorter.
That’s the conclusion reached by John Komlos, an economist who researches the relationship between standards of living and human health and body size. His study, which has not yet been published, analyzes data recently released by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read the article to find out why height is such a crucial component of overall health. This is a very disturbing finding, especially since researchers aren’t sure why/how it’s happening. Until we know that, we can’t reverse the trend, and something tells me research bucks are going to be increasingly difficult to score.
