I recall many, many years ago looking at Admiral Lord Nelson’s uniform and being amazed by how tiny it was. Back in 1805, he was pretty average and pretty average in those days was around five foot tall. We’ve grown in stature since then with each generation putting on a few inches in height and pounds in weight. I am taller and heavier than my parents, for example. So when I see a news item that tells us that children are larger these days, I ask; “so what?”
Yet such is the penchant to push a political agenda, that increasing size is seen as evidence of obesity. However, not only are waistlines expanding as the headline to the article mentions – and, indeed, the television piece also concentrated on this – but height is also increasing. Again, the article mentions this – it is just undermined by the misleading headline. If people are growing in height, it is a logical conclusion that they are going to be proportionally bigger all round. I wouldn’t expect to have the same waist size as Admiral Lord Nelson, given that I’m nearly a foot taller.
Still, never let an opportunity to subliminally peddle the latest health scare pass by, eh? Why else would this be news?
Agreed.
About one inch taller per generation seems to be a fair approximation, as well as people born each decade living a year or two longer than the ones born the previous decade.
Alternatively, Nelson’s uniform shrank in the wash.
It’s the Nephelim, gigantic spawn of satan. They’re being secretly DNA manipulated back into existence over successive generations. Quietly, so nobody notices the change.
Hmm. Perhaps letting kids out to play outside and making them walk a bit instead of fearing the ‘paedo on every corner’ might help?
Off with their X-boxes! 👿
Don’t!
I’m having an intermittent course of Physiotheraphy for tendon-injury. At the clinic there’s an “obesity” chart, based on the Body Mass Index.
Now the BMI in itself is a ueful measure, but it is being grossly mis-used and waved around as lying propaganda, when someone like me who has the same trouser size as 30 years’ ago, is regarded as “overweight” at 83kg & 1.79 m tall (!)
Ther is a reason for this – usualyy carefully ignored or hidden by the health nanny-fascists.
The BMI raw data was collected (from a very large sample population) in the Mid-West of the USA in the eal=rly 1930’s.
Oops.