ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2003 EH.Net -----------------------------------------------------------
Name: John Komlos Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Institution: University of Munich
Co-author: Marieluise Baur
Title: From the Tallest in the World to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the Size of the American Population in the Twentieth Century
Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/ls_komlos/fattest.pdf
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Language: English
Abstract:
Within the course of the 20th century the American population went
through a metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being
among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western
and Northern Europeans was between 3-9 cm in the middle of the 19th
century. Americans were also underweight.
The current President of The United States sets a good personal example by exercising regularly, not working too long hours, going to sleep at a "decent" hour, and not taking his work home with him (so to speak -- heck, he works at home, and he has the world's finest mobile home, too...).
I wish he would [sincerely] assure us that everyone on the White House Staff has a similarly healthful lifestyle and that he is going to find a "passionate conservative" way to see that every American has it to.
\brad mccormick
> However, today, the exact
opposite is the case as the Dutch, Swedes, and Norwegians are the tallest, and the Danes, British and Germans -- even the East-Germans -- are also taller, towering over the Americans by as much as 3-7 cm. Americans also live shorter. The hypothesis is worth considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer social safety nets in the United States than in Western and Northern Europe, in spite of higher per capita income. The West- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more propitious environment for the biological standard of living than its US counterpart.
Bibliography: Komlos, John. "From the Tallest in the World to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the Size of the American Population in the Twentieth Century." University of Munich, Unpublished Manuscript, 2003.
Subject: U Geographical Area: 7 Country/Region: US & Western Europe Time Period: 9
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