[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I've thought the same thing on an anecdotal basis. It seems like I see a lot of bigger kids these days compared to my youth, both in height and weight.

If the height disparity is a myth, I bet the weight disparity isn't. In my high school class, we only had two guys who were over 220 pounds, out of about 150 guys. So less than 2 percent were that size. Now, the numbers undoubtedly would have risen during our 20s, so I'm not sure how many would fall into that category ten years later. But I doubt that it would be the 16+ percent of modern 20-somethings who are over 220.

On a different topic, I find it interesting that there are roughly equal proportions of men and women in their 20s who weigh 260+ pounds, even though the women are typically 5 inches shorter. In every other age group, men are more than twice as likely to fall into that 260+ category.

So does that mean that we have an obesity epidemic that is hitting younger women in the modern world, or does that mean that a lot of larger women end up losing weight as they enter their thirties?

Omaha has your answer.