Quinlan
Right the First Time!
- MBTI
- ISFP
For women, the prevalence of obesity showed no statistically significant changes over the 10-year period from 1999 through 2008. For men, there was a significant linear trend over the same period, but estimates for the period 2003-2004, 2005-2006, and 2007-2008 did not differ significantly from each other. These data suggest that the increases in the prevalence of obesity previously observed between 1976-1980 and 1988-19941, 3 and between 1988-1994 and 1999-20003 may not be continuing at a similar level over the period 1999-2008, particularly for women but possibly for men.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/2009.2014v1
Women are no fatter than they were ten years ago, men no fatter for about 7 years (if I'm reading correctly).
Does this lend weight (lol) to the idea of natural genetic limits on body size?