From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the American Population in the 20th Century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise

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“…Sa progression rapide dans un certain nombre de pays a en effet marqué les esprits. Les Américains sont ainsi passés au cours du XX e siècle de l'état de peuple le plus grand du monde à celui d'un des peuples les plus gros (Komlos et Baur, 2004). L'ensemble des pays européens est également touché (de Saint Pol, 2008b).…”

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Poids et régimes alimentaires en Europe

Pol¹

2010

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Dans le cadre d'une augmentation de la corpulence moyenne en Europe et d'une multiplication des discours sur le poids et son contrôle, l'étude des régimes alimentaires est essentielle pour comprendre aussi bien le rapport que les individus entretiennent à leur poids que les enjeux des politiques publiques mises en oeuvre. Cet article propose d'étudier les régimes alimentaires en Europe pour voir si aux différences de corpulences entre pays européens correspondent différentes pratiques liées à l'alimentation et aux régimes. Notre étude fait apparaître que la France occupe une situation très particulière, en raison notamment de la faiblesse de la norme de poids idéal, et que le genre est une dimension essentielle, mais pourtant souvent négligée, du rapport au poids en Europe. Le sous-poids apparaît ainsi, à l'instar du surpoids pour les femmes, une situation très dévalorisée pour les hommes qui cherchent plus souvent qu'elles à gagner du poids.

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2010

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“…Living conditions improved thereafter reflecting improvements in climatic conditions and in agricultural productivity. Europeans were markedly shorter than the inhabitants of the New World throughout the 18 th centuryby as much as 3-10 cm (1-4 inches) and remained smaller than Americans during the subsequent two centuries, though the gap disappeared by the mid-20 th century (Komlos 2001;Komlos and Baur 2004). This is even true for slaves (Komlos 1994).…”

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European Heights in the Early 18^th Century

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Komlos

2007

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We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18 th century. English and Irish male heights are estimated at c. 65 inches (165 cm), and c. 66 inches (168 cm) respectively. These values are below those obtained from the only other sample available for the period pertaining to British and Irish men, namely those of runaway indentured and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170,2 cm). At c. 64.5 inches (164 cm) Saxon, German and Scotch military heights appear to be near the bottom of the European height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and Hungarians. A large decline in English heights is evident among the birth cohorts of 1725-29, suggesting that the subsistence crisis of this period must have had a substantial lasting impact on the nutritional status of the cohort born during a time of nutritional deprivation.

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“…In these 40 years, we also have seen three consecutive years of declining life expectancy, a deep anomaly among our international peers, humiliating rates of infant and maternal mortality, shocking levels of gun violence, and extreme incidence of overweight and obesity. As economist John Komlos has documented, during World War II, native born Americans were the tallest among advanced nations, both men and women—we are now among the shortest . For good measure, Americans are also among the most dissatisfied with our health care system.…”

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“…As economist John Komlos has documented, during World War II, native born Americans were the tallest among advanced nations, both men and womenwe are now among the shortest. 4 For good measure, Americans are also among the most dissatisfied with our health care system. For what it is worth, money doesn't buy us good health or happiness.…”

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Shareholders, Stakeholders, and US Health Care

McDonough¹

2019

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A ugust 19, 2019 was a big day for The Business Roundtable (TBR), the Washington, DC non-profit association of chief executive officers of major US companies. The organization released a new "Statement on the Purpose of the Corporation" signed by 183 CEOs declaring that the interests of workers, customers, communities, and "other stakeholders" should be as important as the interests of a company's shareholders. 1 This represented a significant change from its 1997 Statement that declared "the principal object of a business is to generate economic returns to its owners."While actions, not statements, will reveal real intent over time, this change was noteworthy-including for the US health care sector. The subject has deep roots in American society, especially in the advocacy of the late economist Milton Friedman, who derided corporate social responsibility as "fundamentally subversive" and asserted that "there is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits." 2 In the 1970s and 1980s, Friedman's notion powered a movement in the United States, Great Britain, and around the globe called "neoliberalism" that promoted deregulation, defanged labor unions, shrunken government, and ever lower taxes. From business schools to high cathedrals of capitalism "greed is good" became more than a movie line from Wall Street and its iconic Gordon Gekko. Binyamin Applebaum's new book, The Economists' Hour, lays out the neoliberal narrative, warts and all, in compelling detail.In recent years, polite rebellion has broken out in business circles against the presumption of shareholder primacy. In January 2019, Black-Rock CEO Larry Fink, in an open letter to CEOs, asserted that companies that "fulfill their purpose and responsibilities to stakeholders reap rewards over the long term. Companies that ignore them stumble and fall." 3 Back in 2009, then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates advocated

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From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the American Population in the 20th Century

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European Heights in the Early 18th Century

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