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  2. Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Men had an age-adjusted rate of 37.9% and Women had an age-adjusted rate of 41.1%. [66] The CDC provided a data update in May 2017 stating that for adults 20 years and older, the crude obesity rate was 39.8% and the age adjusted rate was measured to be 39.7%. Including the obese, 71.6% of all American adults age 20 and above were overweight ...

  3. What Is the Average Weight for Women? - AOL

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    The average body weight of women in America has been steadily increasing over the past few decades. According to national surveys, about 42 percent of U.S. women have obesity and an additional 27 ...

  4. Human body weight - Wikipedia

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    Excess or reduced body weight is regarded as an indicator of determining a person's health, with body volume measurement providing an extra dimension by calculating the distribution of body weight. Average adult human weight varies by continent, from about 60 kg (130 lb) in Asia and Africa to about 80 kg (180 lb) in North America, with men on ...

  5. Media depictions of body shape - Wikipedia

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    The average American female fashion model begins working in the modeling business between the ages of 13 to 17 years old. [12] The average female model in the United States weighs between 90 and 120 lb (40.82–54.43 kg), and stands at between 5 ft 8 in (172.72 cm) and 5 ft 11 in (180.34 cm) tall. [13]

  6. What Is the Average Weight for Men? - AOL

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    The average male weight by age can vary as much as a few pounds. Guys in their 20s and 30s weigh 196.9 pounds on average, men in their 40s and 50s are 200.9 pounds on average, and men over 60 ...

  7. Obesity - Wikipedia

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    The weight that is viewed as an ideal has become lower since the 1920s. This is illustrated by the fact that the average height of Miss America pageant winners increased by 2% from 1922 to 1999, while their average weight decreased by 12%. [237] On the other hand, people's views concerning healthy weight have changed in the opposite direction.

  8. Demographic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The average age at first marriage for both men and women began to fall after WWII, dropping 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women in 1950 and dropping even more to 22.5 and 20.1 years in 1956. In 1959, the United States Census Bureau estimated that 47% of all brides marrying for their first time were teenagers aged 19 and under.

  9. Is the Middle-Class ‘American Dream’ of the 1950s Still ...

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    However, shaky financial markets in the early 2000s, culminating in a financial crisis in 2008 and COVID-19, are among the many factors making the American Dream increasingly out of reach for the ...